13 ways of looking at a blackbird
Mariah Santos
February 25th 2014
AP Language and Composition - Period 4
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Stanza I
3. a. Ominous - "only moving thing" is an eye.
b. Detail - contrast of silent, white snow, and moving black eye.
c. Eye is all seeing.
Stanza II
3. a. Torn: targets the "three" choices like with the different "three minds" and "three blackbirds"
b. Detail - Compares and contrasts "three minds" and "three blackbirds" then in a way ties it to one thing, "a tree."
c. Even though humans think of things with two sides, the tree has three sides the three blackbirds with individual thoughts that differ but are somehow alike.
Stanza III
3. a. Playful - The blackbird "whirling" in the autumn winds, like a child during fall.
b. Detail - The blackbird's act of flight is like a "pantomime" or performance.
c. Blackbird enjoying the autumn winds, and contributing to its performance.
Stanza IV
3.a. Unity - "are one" combining man, woman, and the blackbird.
b. Repetition: "A man and a woman. Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird are one."
c. Even in unity the blackbird is within and is unified within the living.
Stanza V
3.a. Sarcastic - "inflections" are changes in tone of voice, and "innuendoes" are suggestions.
b. Contrasts "inflections" and "innuendoes." Also, contrasts the time when the blackbird whistles and then afterwards when the blackbird is silent.
c. "The beauty of inflections" and "the beauty of innuendoes" are reflections of the blackbird's birdcalls and then the silence that follows afterwards.
Stanza VI
3.a. Dark - "The mood traced in the shadow," "indecipherable," and "barbaric."
b. Detail - Shadows being depicted by an unknown cause.
c. Seasons - winter with "icicles." An "indecipherable cause" is something unknown.
Stanza VII
3.a.
b.
c. Golden birds represent
Stanza VIII
3.a. Clear/Understood: "Lucid" meaning clear and easily understood. "In what I know" being aware.
b. Repetition - "I know,"
February 25th 2014
AP Language and Composition - Period 4
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Stanza I
3. a. Ominous - "only moving thing" is an eye.
b. Detail - contrast of silent, white snow, and moving black eye.
c. Eye is all seeing.
Stanza II
3. a. Torn: targets the "three" choices like with the different "three minds" and "three blackbirds"
b. Detail - Compares and contrasts "three minds" and "three blackbirds" then in a way ties it to one thing, "a tree."
c. Even though humans think of things with two sides, the tree has three sides the three blackbirds with individual thoughts that differ but are somehow alike.
Stanza III
3. a. Playful - The blackbird "whirling" in the autumn winds, like a child during fall.
b. Detail - The blackbird's act of flight is like a "pantomime" or performance.
c. Blackbird enjoying the autumn winds, and contributing to its performance.
Stanza IV
3.a. Unity - "are one" combining man, woman, and the blackbird.
b. Repetition: "A man and a woman. Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird are one."
c. Even in unity the blackbird is within and is unified within the living.
Stanza V
3.a. Sarcastic - "inflections" are changes in tone of voice, and "innuendoes" are suggestions.
b. Contrasts "inflections" and "innuendoes." Also, contrasts the time when the blackbird whistles and then afterwards when the blackbird is silent.
c. "The beauty of inflections" and "the beauty of innuendoes" are reflections of the blackbird's birdcalls and then the silence that follows afterwards.
Stanza VI
3.a. Dark - "The mood traced in the shadow," "indecipherable," and "barbaric."
b. Detail - Shadows being depicted by an unknown cause.
c. Seasons - winter with "icicles." An "indecipherable cause" is something unknown.
Stanza VII
3.a.
b.
c. Golden birds represent
Stanza VIII
3.a. Clear/Understood: "Lucid" meaning clear and easily understood. "In what I know" being aware.
b. Repetition - "I know,"