Analysis of '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' by Wallace Stevens 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' by Wallace Stevens is a poem about what it means to really know something . In this poem, Stevens shows this connection by writing a first-person poem about a poet's observation and contemplation when looking at a blackbird. He does this by making each stanza an explanation of a new way he has perceived this blackbird. First he writes about his physical perception of the blackbird as an observer. He then writes about his thought processes during this period. These are like the thoughts and perceptions of the blackbird itself, what it must be like to be that bird. Ultimately, he concluded that seeing this blackbird a connection was made and he now knows that the blackbird has become part of him. In the first stanza, he focuses on the blackbird's eye as an external observer. This symbolizes the thoughts and consciousness of the blackbird. It is also a transition from the perception of the observer to the perception of the blackbird. In the second stanza, Stevens goes on to say that he had "three minds, like a tree, in which there are three blackbirds." This was the first time he makes the connection between seeing the blackbird and himself being metaphorically the blackbird. He makes this connection even clearer in the fourth stanza when he says that “A man and a woman are one.” A man, a woman and a blackbird are one." In the sixth stanza he returns to being the poet's observer as he watches the blackbird fly near his frozen window. Again in the next stanza he returns to the blackbird's point of view wondering why the blackbird Haddam's men only imagine golden birds instead of realizing the value of the common blackbird At this moment, he makes the connection that seeing and knowing the blackbird becomes a part of himself When he says in the eighth stanza ?I know noble and lucid accents. , inevitable rhythms; I also know, That the blackbird is involved in what I know.? After that, he is the bird black and the poet's watcher are separated, but in the twelfth stanza Stevens writes, "The river is moving. The black bird must fly".