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 Poem Found Here:  "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens Stevens' title are great.  "The Emperor of Ice Cream" comes to mind.  I think he made the title, "The Snow Man" to be associated with joy and holiday cheer and for the poem to systematically break down those meanings into a moment of nothingness. "One must have a mind of winter" is a line that will be defined as we go further down the tercets.  The initial way to have the "mind of winter" is  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, Note how the poem starts off with strong imagery of "frost and bough / of pine-trees with snow" and with the addition of time asks the reader to consider the whole process of winter: of how snow falls to encrust the trees and create ice on junipers.  The speaker is asking the reader to observe in which the next lines, "Of the January ...

Original poem reprinted online here: "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens Originally read: December 13, 2012 More information about the Poet: Wallace Stevens I was particularly harsh with this poem when I first read it.  Well actually when I read this poem on the 13th, I probably read this poem a couple times because I think I received a Christmas Card with this poem on it.  I never looked in depth in it thought because I thought, "okay winter poem." And on first written analysis, I took the poem as a nature poem trying to have something hidden beneath it and I wrote comments like, "Bland and a bit cliche," or "There's something hidden here but somethings not fitting"  because the description of nature isn't that surprising or the technique in the poem to transfer the season to the mind has been done many times before. However, when I read the poem out loud this morning, I found that I really like this poem based on sound.  Everything flowed...