If you have a mind to read further, I will try to persuade you that logic is—or can be—poetic.
And I will try to show this through a contoured, formalistic reading of Wallace Stevens’s poem, “The Snow Man.” To do this I’m going to break up his poem by logical unit, rather than by stanza (the aesthetics of the poem and its meaning(s) I save for another p…
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