The Snow Man

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.
  

 The first line, One must have a mind of winter, I took as the mind is dead.  When I think of winter, cold and dead trees first come to my mind.  Then in lines two and three, Stevens goes on to talk about how we don't see the beauty winter contains.  In the second stanza, Stevens repeats the idea in the first stanza of how people don't apppreciate winter. In the next stanza, he talks about some reasons why somebody might not appreciate winter.  In the fourth stanza, he talks about how bare winter can be.  The last stanza I think "the listener" is being referred to as the snowman.  The last line is my favorite because I took it as even though it may appear as if there's nothing there, there is always something.