Analysis Of The Snowman

This essay will consist of four grueling paragraphs comparing and contrasting "Snow" by David Berman with a personal version of that poem. The second paragraph will compare the two versions of the poems. While the third paragraph will contrast the versions.The last paragraph will sum up the essay. I will compare all aspects of these versions of the poem. I will compare and contrast the characters, setting, plot and many more characteristics. To conclude I will also talk about parts I liked and did not like.

In “First Snow”, Mary Oliver uses the persona of snow to project the beauty found in nature. The poem discusses how snow

Imagery is used throughout the poem to emphasize the finite time humans have on the earth, and how every second should be appreciated. Lines two and three are the speaker’s first use of imagery. Diction in line two illustrates the speaker’s recognition of the phenomena, which is snow in October. The phrase “But this morning” (line 2) highlights that the meaning is not a mundane morning. Most people would be agitated that winter came early, but the speaker seems to be grateful. Furthermore, the speaker describes the snow in a pleasant tone, seen in this line “pale muslin/ stretched across the grass” (line 2-3). This emphasizes that the speaker appricates the early

“A Noiseless Patient Spider”, by Walt Whitman, and “The Snow Man”, by Wallace Stevens are two poems that contrast well with each other, while still sharing some similarities. The two poems take place in nature, and are about the observations of the surrounding area, with Whitman’s poem being more focused on a creature, a spider to be specific. Steven’s poem focused more on the area itself. They are both rather philosophical in nature, with Whitman’s talking about soul and Steven’s seems to be about a lack of soul. The two poems contrast in the tone with Whitman’s being more optimistic and lighter, and Steven’s being darker in contrast. The comparison will be of the two poem’s tone, and motivation.

Snow here could represent dullness or loneliness. Frost feels that everything or everyone around him are filled with loneliness, no excitement and everything seems to be the same. Line four in the poem says that “But a few weeds and stubble showing last.” Here it tells us that although dullness, emptiness, or loneliness covered almost everything around him, he could still see some life or excitement somewhere in between. Yet this small bits of life and excitement were nothing compared to the overwhelming emptiness. In the next couple of lines, Frost seems to have forgotten all about the weeds and stubble he saw and put his attention back to the empty, snow covered surroundings. He then looks at the woods near the field and that too have been covered in snow. He also mentioned that all the animals are covered in snow in their lairs. These two lines again emphasize how Frost feels. He knows that there are live around him, yet those life are also filled with emptiness. Soon he even realized that not only the surroundings that were filled with loneliness, but Frost himself are also in it as line eight says, “The loneliness includes me unawares.”

Introduce and Read aloud, The Fattest, Tallest, Biggest Snowman Ever. Remind students what non-standard units of measurement are.

There is also rhyme that is used in the poem to help create more desire to the poem. Richard uses words in his poem that rhyme to create sounds that are appealing to our sense and to unify and create a poems form. The way he uses “alone/moan” go together and give off a sense of sadness. We know at this point that the boy is fearful for what may happen to the snowman being outside. The poet uses alterations in his poem to show creativity. By using rhyme in his poem it helps give us more insight on the theme of the poem. There are many different elements that help you understand what the theme of the poem is but the ones that stuck out the most to me were the rhyme and our next element I will be talking about also helps you to identify the theme of the poem.

Early in December of 1948 the village of Legends received one of the coldest winters in Legends History. Legends also set another record that December for the most people gone missing in one month (thirty two). With the thirty two people missing, Police and Dan the Snowman investigated the last time witnesses saw the missing thirty two people. Witnesses in nearby areas say they saw a tall creature with horns on its head and a lot of hair, more than usual. Jon, a witness, said the creature was ‘Krampus’ like. Before Dan the Snowman started to worry about his villagers, he knew ‘Krampus’ was back and ready for another battle.

In the poem, “From Snowbound” the power and insensitivity of nature is demonstrated as the main source of Romanticism. The poem begins with the author stating, “The sun that brief December day”(Whittier 1). Which is saying that the sun is out in the middle of a December day… Then the poet says, “Unwarmed by any sunset light / The grey day darkened into night” (Whittier15-16).

Winter is a time of cold, when forests die and animals hide from the shrieking winds and biting cold. Winter is a time for survival against the odds. How apt that the speaker is struggling against the "lovely, dark and deep" woods to remember that he has "miles to go before [he] sleep[s]." The "easy wind" calls to him, and the "downy flake" beckons him to a comfortable sleep. If the speaker had paused on a bright summer day, the sleep might be just a short rest, but the poem is set on the "darkest evening of the year" while the "woods fill up with snow," and any rest taken in the "lovely, dark and deep" woods would result in the eternal sleep of death (474).

Like all art, there are endless ways for this piece to be interpreted evoking countless emotions depending on the experiences of the person. The goal of an artist, is to inspire thought and conversation, which this piece does beautifully. The best thing about snow, is how it can completely change the atmosphere of a scene. When I look at the piece, I can feel the cold and hear the deafening silence that comes with a winter storm. I love that snow can lead to some many sensations, from feeling cozy and safe by the fire, to a cold dreadful feeling of complete isolation. When there is nothing but the sounds of branches snapping under the heft of something that seems so weightless and the crunch as you walk along something that appears so soft,

I think the author’s purpose in writing this poem was to express in words of what walking in the snow is like. The poem’s on-going motif of softness and whiteness express to the readers a peaceful, and relaxed mood.

In a poem like "Birches," Frost (so it seems to me) makes clear the influence of the New England transcendentalists on his thought. He imagines a boy climbing toward "heaven" even while he states categorically that earth's the proper place for love. And the beautiful woman in her peignoir in "Sunday Morning" may be skipping Mass but she is certainly enjoying her own green animal vitality and her coffee and orange. Even the narrator of "The Snow Man" who is aware of "the nothing that is" in the cold wind of winter is aware of "the frost and the boughs / Of the pine-trees crusted with snow" and notes "the junipers shagged with ice" and the "spruces rough in the distant glitter / Of the January sun." Steven finds beauty even in the desolation.

It was a frigid day in December. I wore so many clothes that I looked like a penguin. Every breath I took makes a small cloud and scattered. The gloves I worn seemed to be mildness like paws. The buildings behind me were covered by the thick snow. The wall became more brick-red because of the spotless white snow. Some snowflakes drift down on my hair gently. The snow was heavy, but not much wind. My friends bounced from worm house and laughed to me. “We should build a snowman. The snow is heavy enough.” One of my friends advised. We all cheered and started to pile the snow together.

Stevens makes this fact apparent from the beginning of the poem, when he notes not only “human revery” but also “the sexual myth” and the “poem of death” (1). Therefore, these defined formulations are only categories of a greater whole, which remains unmentioned in the poem. In deliberating on Stevens’s poems, we can come to understand this encompassing whole as the imagination, which impels an individual to make “eccentric propositions” about his or her life and fate (4-5, 10).