What does “rattapallax” mean?
Wallace Stevens uses the word in his poem, “Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs” :
That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine,
The breath of turgid summer, and
Heavy with thunder’s rattapallax,
All I’ve found is that “rattapallax” is the name of a poetry publication. I can’t find the definition anywhere. Did Wallace Stevens make it up? Is it an archaic form of another word? What does it mean? My guess is pertaining to sound, or an expectant/culminated storm.
I do not know of “rattapallax” as a word but it has a wonderfully onomatopoeic sound as a description of thunder
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