Snow man by Wallace Stevens

The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens is a poem where the poet puts the reader into a frame of mind; the snow man’s.  To “regard the frost and the bough,” as a snow man would experience it is an example. Those boughs “crusted with snow” to which the poet relays the world of snow man is a cold world a regular man, but a “crusted with snow” world to a snow man.  In the next stanza, Wallace Stevens uses the word “And” to bring the reader back into snow man’s world, “have been cold a long time” describing the space and time he occupies. The poet lets the reader know it is winter and he uses another “and” to continue the existence of the snow man’s world in which he occupies.  The inescapable sound of the wind, that snow man can’t escape from.  In the world of the snow man the “blowing in the same bare place” is every present and normal. I believe that in the last stanza the poet is referring to the “listener” as the person reading the poem and then he uses the word “and” to bring the reader back into to the snow man’s world.  But really, is there is something there? The last sentence contains three negatives which equates to a negative; suggesting nothing but is there “nothing that is.”

Abe