"The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens

"The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens is a poem which creates a unique image of the snow man and winter through an effective imagery, and which makes the reader to use another way of thinking in order to both understand the poem and realize its theme.
The first thing that is noticeable about the poem is that it is actually just one long, complex sentence. There is no rhyme, and there is no particular meter. The poem begins with the words: "One must have a mind of winter". The title suggests that this is actually the mind of "the snow man." But when reading and analyzing the poem further there…