The snow gum essay

The title of the poem is abstruse; whilst it is made clear that it is not about a standard snowman as it is not ‘The Snowman” but instead a man of snow, it is still unclear as to whether this ‘man of snow’ is the speaker in this poem. Throughout the poem, Stevens gives us

The stories presented by Hemingway in The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Fitzgerald in Winter Dreams both represent the struggle of two men each dealing with their place in society as it relates to being male and this poem, I read it as the man in the poem is not happy about winter and the snow with cold weather.

As walking through the road i look up to the sky and a bright light shines through my eyes. All of sudden i come back to reality,the flash of light was the street light while i was walking towards our red truck covered with snow.

With “Snow on the snow” I read that as more snow is covering up the good things on Earth. The same thing applies to whern he says “It is like flowering almond tree under the snow” about how the snow is covering up all of the good things in the world.