The Snow Man- Wallace Stevens

        The first line of this poem Wallace makes his main point, "One must have a mind of winter," which relates to the title of the poem and is inferring that a person needs to look through the eyes of a snow man to really appreciate and find the beauty in not only winter and nature, but life as well. People usually get so caught up in life and the rush of everything they're just thinking about how their car isn't going to start, or that it's colder than what they like. By becoming "one" with nature Wallace is saying that we can appreciate all the little things like "pine-trees crusted with snow" and the "junipers shagged with ice." He points out the fact that a snowman can find these joys which are in the exact same place that we are, but we just don't stop to look.
       The last two lines of this poem are very complex and made me think: "And, nothing himself, beholds nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." After reading it out loud to myself quite a few times, it still didn't really make sense and reminded me of some 70's profound saying that nobody really understood. The most I could get out of it was that this whole poem is personifying the snowman as a real object and then brings the reader back to reality saying that since the snowman isn't real neither is the concept of humans ever understanding nature fully. But that's all i got!