Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird Analysis

After much confirming and decoding, we have established the meanings this poem gives us. This poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” right off the bat we can see before each stanza is separated by roman numerals. This poem says what it means, and it says what it sees. The interpretation of this difficult looking poem is very much straight forward. As there are thirteen roman numerals describing ways of looking at a blackbird. The view of a blackbird, more commonly we say this blackbird is a crow. As concluded in the first stanza, our blackbird is flying over twenty snowy mountains. Which we know is not quite possible if we were to view it as a human, it’s viewed first person as a bird. And an exaggeration is presented in this first …show more content…
It tells us it’s just a small part of it’s dramatic performance, when it’s really the crow is soaring among the winds of autumn being extraordinary playful.
In our next stanza we encounter a confusing statement, as we all should know; a man and a women can become one in a form of procreation. Except why would the poet Wallace Stevens encompass a blackbird within the use of this proclamation? In my explanation, I would for say; that Wallace is telling us to take this view to another step. Looking at it in a entirely different way that we least expect.
Our next section of this poem deals with sounds; as the narrator of this poem doesn’t know which to either prefer. Whether it’s innuendoes, inflections or the whistle of the blackbird. If its inflections, it would be dealing with the changes that are at ends of sounds. And its innuendoes, it would have to do with the sound going at a sloped angle; the sound grows or shrinks in a gradual pace. As this interpretation was made to easily be understandable with enough knowledge of vocabulary and senses of creativity to create …show more content…
Leaving a moody feeling behind as the shadow of the black bird casts while it walks by the icicles. The next place we view this poem is in a town in Connecticut called Haddam. It talks about the men that imagine “golden birds,” while blackbirds are the women they love; are right where they are. The men couldn’t see the blackbirds that are walking among the many women that are in town. And yet they imagine the “golden birds” that cease to exist in their lives. The men only thought of other things such as wealth and money, while they neglected feelings and love. The narrator speaking this stanza is talking about inescapable rhymes, and that it’s clear to everyone. In this scenario we can say that he’s relating these rhymes to poems. And that it’s impossible to escape the alluring rhymes or poems. Somehow the blackbird is confined in this, an example would be this poem Wallace Stevens