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The poem gives the reader a unique philosophical dimension by taking him to a snowy landscape. He incorporates a winter landscape into the poem by depicting its sense of beauty and then distances him away from creating attachment from its aesthetics. The winter and cold express the sensation of barren and dry emotions of misery because the human mind feels it difficult to fill words to describe sentiments. He believes that a person in such an environment must not express his mournful emotions to disturb the environment and must appreciate still and cold by resisting his desire to project human feelings “Of the January sun, and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"ZBmmmoYk","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Stevens)","plainCitation":"(Stevens)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":71,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5OlhLovK/items/KTRECIWC"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5OlhLovK/items/KTRECIWC"],"itemData":{"id":71,"type":"book","title":"The snow man","publisher":"Prometheus Press","source":"Google Scholar","author":[{"family":"Stevens","given":"Wallace"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1982"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Stevens)”. The title “The Snow Man” is not a literal snowman but a man of snow, who must possess qualities analogous to snow like cold, egoless, objective and detached.

In the poem, Vincent Millay describes the frenzy of emotions that are associated with a woman. She talks about the impact of propinquity and intimacy with a potential lover and resulting extremes tendencies that are associated with it. She believes that her natural body formation and intrinsic desires move her to involve in love or lust irrespective of whether or not her mind wants to do it or not. “Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body’s weight upon my breast ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Xlq3QVcG","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Millay)","plainCitation":"(Millay)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":69,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5OlhLovK/items/W6RCJ59W"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/5OlhLovK/items/W6RCJ59W"],"itemData":{"id":69,"type":"article-journal","title":"I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed","container-title":"American Literature","source":"Google Scholar","author":[{"family":"Millay","given":"Edna St Vincent"}]}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Millay)”. The physical connection can possess a woman and retain an impact until she is able to comprehend but she is not entirely dependent on physical requirements due to hormonal changes. She has the power to leave this and walk away if no connection is present. The joke is the sudden reversal at the end of the poem where she stunned the listener by denying the long-lasting effects of intimacy. That experience does not give a person leverage to start things all over again as it was done in the heat of the moment.

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ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Millay, Edna St Vincent. “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed.” American Literature.

Stevens, Wallace. The Snow Man. Prometheus Press, 1982.