Night of the Alpaca by VaccaD

Question 12

The title of WHAT POEM BY ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS, written in 1578 or 1579, is used by Catholic theologians to describe a spiritual crisis of the sort presented in the poem? F. Scott Fitzgerald later adapted the term for other sorts of despair, writing in The Crack-Up that "in a real [BLANK] it is always three o'clock in the morning".

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

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