Man in Nature: A New Critical Reading of Wallace Steven’s “The Snow Man” in the Context of Modernism

The study of Wallace Stevens has a long and varied history.His life, poetry and philosophy have been interpreted in the demensions of romanticism, modernism, postmodernism and ecologism, with focuses on specific aspects such as linguistic structure, the feminine, painting, music and faith.In recent years, studies of Stevens have expanded to include the Chinese elements and the relationship between imagination and reality in his poetry.This thesis intends to examine how irony, ambiguity, tension and paradox cooperate in "The Snow Man" to refresh the reader on man-nature relationship, to understand how Wallace Stevens reflects and reconciles the existential angst of "nothingness" popular in the early 20th century by this poem, and develops a positive or even optimistic attitude.