Week Two "The Snow Man"

There is something very tantalizing to me about this poem. Every time I reread this poem it starts to begin to become a little more clear as to why. This poem harps on the bleakness and emptiness of winter and at the same time it never mentions the spring. Usually when you think of winter you think of the cold and the bleakness but almost uncontrollably you'll think of the spring. It's sort used as a coping mechanism; it's like you can't handle the winter but don't worry because the spring will soon follow. A lot of people view the change from winter to spring like death and rebirth, which is a very hope inspiring processes; out of emptiness you can find life. In "The Snowman However" it ends with  "Nothing that is not there and nothing that is." Wallace Stevens is saying that out of nothing you get nothing. The winter is empty and cold and this inspires no hope. It's almost like he gets so caught up in this charmless void of life. He doesn't see a light at the end of the tunnel just the darkness that consumes him.