The only moving thing / Was the eye of the" title avian, FTP, identify this poem that presents a number of ways of perceiving the title bird, by Wallace Stevens.
According to Helen Vendler, the title being of this poem is "the principle of our final relation to the universe." Its fifth section reveals that the narrator does not know whether to prefer "the beauty of inflections" or "the beauty of innuendos," while another section states that "bawds of euphony" would cry out at the site of the title animal. The narrator asks the "thin men of Haddam" why they do not see the title creatures, one of which "marked the edge / Of one of many circles." Beginning by describing how "among twenty snowy mountains / The only moving thing / Was the eye of the" title avian, FTP, identify this poem that presents a number of ways of perceiving the title bird, by Wallace Stevens.
According to Helen Vendler, the title being of this poem is "the principle of our final relation to the universe."
“{Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird}”