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Snow Man Robert Frost

The last lines of "The Snow Man," with their emphasis on seeing "nothing that is not there and the nothing that is" are particularly apt. In this poem, things not evoked are equal in importance to the things that are. Why does Stevens invoke the idea of "a man of snow," one who has been "cold for a long time" and who is capable of gazing upon a winter landscape with perfect detachment, if not to suggest that there exists an antithetical mode of perception? Although some might argue that "seeing things as they are," to paraphrase The Man With the Blue Guitar, is an absolute virtue, Stevens is (as Helen Vendler recognized) a poet who deals more often with potential than actuality. The final poem in his 1921 "lyric sequence," "Tea at the Palaz of Hoon," vividly shows an artist engaged with his surroundings, carrying his involvement to a solipsistic extreme; he brashly declares that he himself is the sole creator of his external reality. Thus, in "Tea at the Palaz of Hoon," there springs to life a figure whom "The Snow Man" creates through negative space -- made conspicuous through his absence.

The poem embodies Stevens’ central theme, the relation between imagination and reality. Endless permutations of this theme were possible. Was

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