Beverly Maeder drew a parallel between this poem's ninth stanza and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Circles," arguing that its author's use of circular imagery suggests liminality. This poem's speaker claims that "I know noble accents / And lucid, inescapable rhythms" and wonders whether to prefer the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendoes. A character introduced late in this poem rides over (*) Connecticut in a glass coach and mistakes a shadow for some animals. Its final stanza begins with the statement "It was evening all afternoon." It opens by describing how, "Among twenty snowy mountains," the only thing moving was the eye of one of the title animals. F
Beverly Maeder drew a parallel between this poem's ninth stanza and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Circles," arguing that its author's use of circular imagery suggests liminality. This poem's speaker claims that "I know noble accents / And lucid, inescapable rhythms" and wonders whether to prefer the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendoes. A character introduced late in this poem rides over (*) Connecticut in a glass coach and mistakes a shadow for some animals. Its final stanza begins with the statement "It was evening all afternoon." It opens by describing how, "Among twenty snowy mountains," the only thing moving was the eye of one of the title animals. For 10 points, name this Wallace Stevens poem that presents a number of views of an avian.
Beverly Maeder drew a parallel between this poem's ninth stanza and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Circles," arguing that its author's use of circular imagery suggests liminality.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"