It's best to try and keep a clear mind when assessing situations and making decisions in life. In "The Snow Man", Wallace Stevens explores this very idea.
Throughout the poem, Stevens creates images of cold, harsh, and unruly winter conditions. Whether it be "junipers shagged with ice", or "misery in the sound of the wind", or "...the same wind that is blowing in the same bare place", the imagery created in the poem is that of harsh winter conditions. The last stanza of the poem, however, asks the reader to be a "listener who listens in the snow." and to behold "nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." This implies that Stevens wants his reader to try and keep as clear a mind as possible, even if the going gets tough.
-TB
Throughout the poem, Stevens creates images of cold, harsh, and unruly winter conditions. Whether it be "junipers shagged with ice", or "misery in the sound of the wind", or "...the same wind that is blowing in the same bare place", the imagery created in the poem is that of harsh winter conditions. The last stanza of the poem, however, asks the reader to be a "listener who listens in the snow." and to behold "nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." This implies that Stevens wants his reader to try and keep as clear a mind as possible, even if the going gets tough.
-TB