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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