The Snow Man

by Wallace Stevens

One must have a mind of winter

To regard the frost and the boughs

Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time

To behold the junipers shagged with ice,

The spruces rough in the distant glitter;

Of the January sun; and not to think

Of any misery in the sound of the wind,

In the sound of a few leaves.

Which is the sound of the land

Full of the same wind

That is blowing in the same bare place.

For the listener, who listens in the snow,

And, nothing himself, beholds

Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

雪人

華萊士•史蒂文斯

人必須懷有冬日的心境

才能去看霜，看那松樹上

掛滿雪冰的樹枝；

人必須長期飽受寒冷

才能欣賞披著冰雪般發絲的杜松，

才能領悟遠處粗硬的云杉。
　　　　　　　

在一月陽光下的閃爍；他才能不去想

那蘊含于風的呼嘯聲

和樹葉飄零中的那份凄涼。

那是大地的聲音

大地刮起同樣的風

在同一個荒野上吹拂。

那風為雪中的聆聽者所刮，

他自身虛無，看不見

那些不存在的，卻看見存在的虛無。