"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" - Wallace Stevens 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureAmerican LiteratureGCSENone Created by: harkiratshergillCreated on: 25-01-21 01:15 Words: Pantomime: a copy of something Haddam: town in CT “With barbaric glass.” Innuendo: an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one. Euphony: the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. The desire for something else, not appreciating what one has Snow, winter - journey, travel Blackbird = God? Religious/holy trinity - “three minds,” “three blackbirds” (II) 1 of 4 Imagery “looking at a blackbird’ Flying - freedom Blackbird = ominous, foreboding? Instead of golden - what if there’s someone better (relationships) Relationship between people and nature Described in multiple sensory details → only “looking”? About perspective? - sight 2 of 4 IV Unity in all things? All about perspective, depending on the perspective of the viewer Man and women = 1 from bird Not 1 but look like they’re one “Barbaric glass” Icicles blocking window - barbaric because it’s getting in the way 3 of 4 V “Beauty of innuendos” Inflections: more sudden, immediacy Innuendos: secondary Beautifully fleeting “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting” 4 of 4
Comments
No comments have yet been made