“A Mind of Winter”: Affect in Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man”

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EXPLICATOR Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/00144940.2023.2223893

Hossein Pirnajmuddin

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Abstract This article offers a reading of Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” in terms of its affective affordances. It is argued that the poem rhetorically imagines the possibility of having “a mind of winter” as being incapable of affect, that is, being inhuman. Thus, the central theme of the relation between mind and world is cast as a double encounter between the human and non-human as well as the inhuman and the non-human.

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“冬天的心灵”：华莱士·史蒂文斯《雪人》中的情感

本文从情感启示的角度来解读华莱士·史蒂文斯的《雪人》。有人认为，这首诗在修辞上把拥有“冬天的心”的可能性想象为没有感情，也就是说，没有人性。因此，心灵与世界关系的中心主题被塑造成人类与非人类以及非人与非人类之间的双重遭遇。

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