The Snow Man

In "The Snow Man" the main characters are only the reader and the author. It is a message.
The message is easy to understand, I know the poem since I read it and I am aware of the images and scapes it references, so I think I know enough about it's message to understand it.
This poem is advancing a thesis on understanding and experience that can be applied to almost anything in life. I can imagine hundreds of different scenarios where "The Snow Man" message would apply and have merit.
I think this poem is accurate in many ways. I believe the message is that: without personal experience, one will be slow to understand a particular circumstance or event, in the case of the poem, winter is the experience. I think many other events could be exchanged with winter in the poem. Winter is a particularly good example so I am not surprized that Stevens chose it.
For me right now the poem does not call any emotional responce. I do not see it as emotional, I think it is a submission of thought on the role and merit of experience; a thesis on what one is missing if they are unconcious of it's existence.
I think this poem happens to all of us. It is inevitable that all of us will be in circumstances where we are inexperienced sometime. Everyone is missing an appreciation for something.
I can't see this applying to me right now. I am doing what I think is right. At the end of the poem there is a message on being able to see more than what is immediatley present in the winter season.