Thu Jun 23, 2022, 12:53 PM
panader0 (24,190 posts)
'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' by Wallace Stevens
One of my favorite poems:
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird BY WALLACE STEVENS I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. X 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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Response to panader0 (Original post)
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:44 PM
bahboo (14,361 posts)
1. very Japanese in nature....
loved this...
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Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:57 PM
Doc Sportello (6,182 posts)
2. He was my favorite poet
Back in college taking literature courses. Always thought it was cool that this great poet spent years as an insurance company executive.
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