“THE SNOWMAN” BY BRENDAN SMITH

A poetry voice thread of the Wallace Stevens Classic

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One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long timeTo 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 landFull of the same windThat is blowing in the same bare placeFor the listener, who listens in the snow,And, nothing himself, beholdsNothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Works Cited Pack, Robert. “On “The Snowman”.” Department of English-LAS.

University of Illinois, 10 Oct 2001. Web. 8 Dec 2010. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/snowman.htm>.

Stevens, Wallace. “Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man.” CPCW. University of Pennsylvania, 18 Jul 2007. Web. 8 Dec 2010.

<http://www.english.upenn.edu/~alfilreis/88/stevens-snowman.html>.