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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