Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird : 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.



Read the whole poem: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html

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