Analysis of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens

The title of Wallace Stevens poem, Thirteen slipway of Looking at a Blackbird, is misleading, because he does not only offer thirteen shipway of looking at blackbird, save the poem offers us galore(postnominal) insights on how humans think. Blackbird, written by capital of Minnesota McCartney and John Lennon, has umpteen similarities with Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird other than just their titles. They use many poetic conventions to explain their poems ideas, both writers use a blackbird to compare to humans and human nature, and imagery plays a bouffant role in getting across their points.

Sometimes poets use various conventions to give the poem a better flow. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, by Wallace Stevens uses vowel rhyme to make the poem have a better go bad or to give it a better flow. Assonance is the repetition of vowels with different consonants. An example is stanza three of Stevens poem:

The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.

It was a small part of the pantomime.

In the first line, i is repeated four times in blackbird, whirled, in, and winds. In the here and now line, a is also repeated four times in was, small, part, and pantomime. McCartneys and Lennons song Blackbird uses anaphoras, which are repeated phrases at the bloodline of a verse, throughout the poem. Blackbird singing in the beat(p) of night, and you were only waiting for this moment to... are the two nigh obvious anaphoras used.



As a reader of the poem, these repeated lines hold out out and grab the readers attention. When finished with the poem, these lines will be the ones that deposit with the reader. Blackbird also uses end rhyme and half rhyme, contrasted Stevens poem. An example of the end rhyme used in the lyrics:

Take these recessed eyes and learn to...

This shew has alot of good points, but is not well organized. There are many instances in this essay of unfinished thoughts. There are many insightful observations made, but lacks explanation.

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