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Analysis of "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
“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 ....
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.... back to the point of view of the blackbird wondering why
the men of Haddam only imagine golden birds instead of realizing the value of
the common blackbird. At this time, he makes the connection that in seeing and
knowing the blackbird it becomes a part of himself. When he says in the eighth
stanza “I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved In what I know.” he is acknowledging that he is
still a poet but when he sees, thinks, and writes about the blackbird, in a way
he is also the blackbird. After this, the bla ....
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