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"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
Title: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
Category: Literature / Poetry
Details: Words: 1852 | Pages: 7.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
Thirteen Ways of Understanding Reality
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" is about many things and nothing in particular. There is no common thread in it (aside from the blackbirds, which only serve as a common symbol for different things); the poem is chaotic, like nature itself. The main focuses in the poem are imagination, nature, and mainly reality, which are facets of existence that no doubt weighed heavily on Wallace Stevens' mind (as …showed first 75 words of 1852 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1852 total…At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.
XI
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.
XII
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.
XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
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