I love this song. It always has had real meaning for me. As much as I love the Beatle’s original, Joe Cocker’s interpretation from Woodstock has always been my favorite Of course he was stoned out of his tree, but it is still one of the highlights of Woodstock. You should rent the movie
December 6, 2009
The Snow Man
Wallace Stevens was one the finest American poets of the 20th Century. A great gift for the poetry love in your life might be Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens
The Snowman
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 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.
Wallace Stevens
