Analysis Of "13 Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird"

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and him
himself metaphorically being the blackbird. He makes this connection even more
clear in the fourth stanza when he says that “A man and a woman Are one. A man
and a woman and a blackbird are one." In the sixth stanza he goes back to being
the poet observer as he watches the blackbird fly by his icy window. Again in
the next stanza he goes back to the point of view of the blackbird wondering why
the men of Haddam only imagine golden birds instead of realizing the value of
the common blackbird. At this time, he makes the connection that in seeing and
knowing the blackbird it becomes a part of himself. When he says in the eighth
stanza “I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved In what I know.” he is acknowledging that he is
still a poet but when he sees, thinks, and writes about the blackbird, in a way
he is also the blackbird. After this, the black bird and the poet observer are
separated but in the twelfth stanza ...

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