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"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", 2004.
Poetry analysis paper of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
1,364 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the view of perception and reality presented in each stanza of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. The issues of reality and imagination, or the perceived and perception, is discussed as it was presented by Steven in each stanza. Poetical devices, images, and quotes are used too.
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"In his poem entitled ?Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,? Wallace Stevens states that in the silent winter landscape, ?the only moving thing / Was the eye of the blackbird? (2-3). This raises an interesting question. Who is looking at who? Does Stevens see the blackbird or does the blackbird see Stevens? Stevens? poem is about the blackbird in its environment, but on a deeper level it deals with the state and mutuality of focus and context, imagination and reality, perceiving and perceived. The distinct and seemingly disjointed images provide the work with continuity and a series of paradigms depicting this relationship between thought and perception."
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Wallace Stevens, 2007.
This paper discusses the ideas and poetry of Wallace Stevens.
1,937 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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The paper reveals that beneath the quiet surface of the ordinary American businessman, Wallace Stevens was one of the greatest American modernist poets of the 20th century. The paper looks at "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," perhaps his most famous poem. The paper discusses how his choices as a poet reflect the idea that one need not go to Europe to apprehend the evolving great ideas and ideals of the modernist movement. The paper concludes that Stevens made his mark as a uniquely national modernist poet.
From the Paper
"Yet the poet Wallace Stevens stayed at home. But in his verse this mild-mannered executive at a major insurance firm in Hartford, Connecticut had "a flair" for the "flashiest titles," and turns of phrase in his verse such as "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle." Thus "Stevens, the aesthete par excellence" pressed "back against the pressure of reality" with a modernist spirit of innovation in his simple yet startling words and images ("Modernism." Poets.org, 2006) But Stevens' first work, rather than the result of engagement with other modernist authors, entitled "Harmonium" emerged as an unusual first book."
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Nature in Poetry, 2003.
Examines four poems.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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Discusses John Keats's ode "To Autumn" in which he personifies the season; Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", which cites multiple reactions to nature; and John Hollander's "Adam's Task", which addresses the limits of humans.
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"A poet's selection of a particular aspect of the relationship between humanity and nature often directs her/his choice of a mode of address. Various ways of addressing nature are examined here in four very different poems. In his ode To Autumn ..."
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