This paper reads Wallace Stevens` "Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue," the second poem of Owl`s Clover (1936), in its socio-political contexts of the mid-thirties. Most of the previous readings have interpreted the text without distinguishing not only between "Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue" (1935-36) and its revised version titled "The Statue at the World`s End" (1937), but also between Stevens in 1935-36 and Stevens in 1937 and 1940. While Stevens in 1935-36 wrote and interpreted the original version responding specifically to Stanley Burnshaw`s urge to follow his popular-front leftism, Stevens in 1937 and 1940 tried to "generalize" or de-contextualize the original text out of its socio-political contexts by deleting historically specific referents and interpreting it in terms of "adaption to change" or "reality" versus "imagination." By comparing and contrasting his letters written from 1935 to 1936 and the original version with his letters from 1937 to 1940 and the revised version, this paper proposes the need to distinguish two texts and two authors in the interpretation of Owl`s Clover as well as "Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue."