Analysis Of "13 Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird"
Beginning of paper
“Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird” by Wallace Stevens is a poem
about what it means to really know something. In this poem, Stevens shows this
connection by writing a first person poem about a poet's observation and
contemplation's when viewing a blackbird. He does this by making each s ....
Middle of paper
.... perception. In the second stanza, Stevens goes on to say that he
was of “three minds, Like a tree, In which there are three blackbirds.” This was
the first time he makes the connection between seeing the blackbird and him
himself metaphorically being the blackbird. He makes this connection even more
clear in the fourth stanza when he says that “A man and a woman Are one. A man
and a woman and a blackbird are one." In the sixth stanza he goes back to being
the poet observer as he w ....
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