Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
Chalbert * Track #15 On CHalbertA3
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Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man” by Chalbert
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Speaker: The speaker is the snow man because he is describing himself but in the third person.
Occasion: The occasion that this poem describes is the cold and brutal winter, and how it effects everything around it.
Audience: The audience can be anyone fascinated with the seasons and how...
Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man” Annotated
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.