Literature and the Para-Rational: Yukio Mishima’s “Spring Snow”

This particular short analysis and criticism, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with one student’s interpretation of the non-rational aspects of “Spring Snow” by Yukio Mishima.

This paper is interesting not only for its content, but also for the fact that the author actually included comments on the paper made by the professor teaching the class for which the paper was written. The professor found the analysis covered Mishima’s work with “clarity,” and that it illuminated “significant aspects of this disturbing and powerful work …”