[blueunicorn6]

Hunter the snowman….

[eyedigress]

Narrated by Barack Obama....

[frank ballenger]

RE: Hunter the snowman.
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Although the snow is the white cocaine and the man is Hunter, Wallace Stevens’ poem first published in 1921 is supposed to tell us to resist the temptation to associate the mournful sound of the winter wind with misery or to project human feelings onto the wintry landscape (as winter symbolized loss)...to avoid attributing incorrect attitudes and emotions to the world of nature. Paraphrased from Interesting Literature website.

The Snow Man
BY WALLACE STEVENS
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

[Celtic Conservative]

I wonder if that’s his secret service code name.

CC