Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," written in 1917, is a canonical poem from the American modernist tradition. Stevens's poetic voice is both contemplative and stark. The poem is at once structured and fragmented, presenting readers with thirteen "sensations" (in Stevens's own words) that all involve a blackbird.

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