The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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Who wrote the poem "The Snow Man"?
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955)
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist
poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and attended Harvard University as
a non-degree special student and later graduated from New York Law School. He
worked as an executive for an insurance company for most of his life. He often
used simple images to express complex ideas. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for Poetry in 1955.
"The Snow Man" explanation
In the poem, the speaker presents the complexities
of human mind and the importance of perspectives using such simple images of a
snow man and the wintry landscape.
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