A parody of this poem by Mark Defoe that begins "Reason with them. Speak Softly. Hide Your Stick." appears in the Brand-X Anthology of Poetry. In On Extended Wings, Helen Vendler calls this poem's author a "sausage-maker" since he is construed by a double vision in construct
A parody of this poem by Mark Defoe that begins "Reason with them. Speak Softly. Hide Your Stick." appears in the Brand-X Anthology of Poetry. In On Extended Wings, Helen Vendler calls this poem's author a "sausage-maker" since he is construed by a double vision in constructing it. This poem describes "the bawds of euphony [that] would cry out sharply" in its tenth stanza, while its final stanza begins "It was evening all afternoon. it was snowing and it was going to snow." This poem asks the thin men of Haddam "Why do you imagine golden birds?" It opens by noting "Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of the" title animal. For 10 points, name this poem by Wallace Stevens that suggests numerous approaches of viewing a certain animal.
A parody of this poem by Mark Defoe that begins "Reason with them.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"