Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Sign Inventory Week 5

The poem goes from first person to third person.The speaker seems to be connected to the blackbird because the speaker describes situations around the blackbird instead of the blackbird just being in the background. He notices the blackbird in places other people do not. The speaker is inspired when he sees the blackbird flying because he describes situations like "the river is moving", "the edge of one of many circles", "the bawds of euphony would cry out sharply". When the blackbird is flying everything else around it seems to be moved by it.
Thirteen Ways to Look at a Blackbird by Wallace Stephens
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15746

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