The Snowman

In his poem "The Snow Man", Wallace Stevens argued that the mind would be shaped in the same way that its surroundings is shaped. And a human wont understand the meanings and images of winter unless they set in it, look at what it causes, and feel the cold weather.. Therefore, the mind of a snow man would be detached from most senses and emotions and wont think of the misery in the sound of the wind.

I n fact, Stevens used clear images of the winter to let the reader understand and imagine what he/she needs. He showed the picture of the pine-trees and how it was covered with snow to show how heavy is the winter which he highlighted that it was in January which falls in a snow period of the years. Furthermore, the way he pictured the junipers and how they covered with snow in a an image that show the level of high snow in a heavy winter again.

Stevens kept on showing the image of the winter by describing the wind flow and how it scattered the leaves around which make a noise which might make a misery for a listener who would think about this wind and what it carries in this silent winter.

The sentences in this poem and short and looks like it was created in a one senesce form to help the decryption of the images in a simple way. Hence, these short sentences help to describe the human’s mind which relates to each part of the surrounding just the same as what happens to the snowman.