The Blackbird

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…

The book Blackbird by Anna Carey included a strong simile, a puzzling theme, and a relatable experience between characters. “You want to write something definitive, but all you’re left with is this sinking feeling, the grief covering you like a thin film,”( Page.33). This direct quote is an example of a simile. The meaning of the simile is to explain the grief the character felt, using a comparison of thin film. It relates to the quality because it helps the reader assuredly picture in their…

The yellow-shouldered blackbird (Agelaius xanthomus) is indigenous to the island of Puerto Rico. It is speculated that this species is derived from the red-winged blackbird which is native to the Haitian Island. Physically the yellow-shouldered blackbird looks just like it sounds, black with brachial yellow patches around the shoulders of the bird. The males are usually larger,heavier and have larger wings than the females of the species. On average the adult birds measure between twenty to…

Silvery flakes drifted downward, glittering in the bright light of the harvest moon. The blackbird soared. Screeching loudly his call echoed in the night sky, flocks of blackbirds came to follow him. He is the king, the warrior , and a vicious beast. Though his army is weak and frail, his army is three times the size of his main rival; the whitehawks. The whitehawks are fierce and formidable, they strike alone but do dwell near each other during battles. With an army of 10,000 soldiers split…

wealth but, aren’t as of life. The overall environment of the garden which is expressed through the description of Mr. Nilson’s “pace of a circular path” implies the ideology of rebirth and the cycle of life and death. The quiet atmosphere and somberness of the garden besides the singing blackbird further supports the quiet field upon the realm of life and death where the blackbird is also able to be characterized as somber due to its appearance but, also the light-heartedness and cheerful tone…

The novel, In the Shadow of Blackbirds, by Cat Winters, takes place from October 16, 1918 to November 11, of that same year. This, is the year that World War I finally came to an end. During this time period the Spanish Influenza virus ran rampant across America, leaving a trail of death and fear in its wake. With the extreme numbers of Americans dying overseas in battle, as well as at home by the grips of the flu, people tried to get connected with their spiritualistic sides. This gave…

Thirteen Ways to Kill a Blackbird is a poem by Wallace Stevens which explores and highlights the perceptions of humans to our surroundings and the multitude of ways in which these can be perceived. It does this by having each of the thirteen stanzas in the poem portray and examine a new way in which the blackbird is viewed by the speaker. This poem uses a haiku style, which Stevens was particularly interested in. Haiku poems traditionally have three lines with five, seven and five syllables…

Throughout the novel Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, Nat compares Kit to a bird in several occasions. Kit used to be like a tropical bird, but ever since she moved to Connecticut, she is changing into a dull-feathered sparrow. Although Kit may have turned into a sparrow, she still has some green feathers of a tropical bird. While Kit sees Puritans as plain and boring, Nat and other Connecticutians think Kit stands out too much. When Kit first arrives at Wethersfield, she…

Andrew Blackbird, a native American that belonged to the Ottawa tribe, wrote a book called The History of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. This book was set in the time period of the late 1800’s and discussed a range of topics such as the wrong doings the Whites did to the Indians, and how things were changing for the Ottawa and Chippewa tribes. Although Andrew Blackbird discusses topics such as how the white people treated the Indians, Blackbird wrote this book about his personal…

themselves in Liverpool, where they grew up. Around the 1960’s the Beatles were one of the bands to lead the “British Invasion” and took their fame to the United States, where they created their best music. The beginning of the Beatles’ music consisted of R&B and Rock-n-Roll, but soon they began to create their own style which was a mixture of blues, country, rock-n-roll, soul, skiffle, and old jazz. This style of music was pulled from their interests in specific artist like; Little Richard,…