THE SNOW MAN
by: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
- NE must have a mind of winter
- To regard the frost and the boughs
- Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
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- And have been cold a long time
- To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
- The spruces rough in the distant glitter
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- Of the January sun; and not to think
- Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
- In the sound of a few leaves,
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- Which is the sound of the land
- Full of the same wind
- That is blowing in the same bare place
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- For the listener, who listens in the snow,
- And, nothing himself, beholds
- Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
"The Snow Man" is reprinted
from Poetry, October 1921. |
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