Blackbird Literary Elements/Devices
The form was inspired by this.
What is haiku?
What is Harvard?
A poem about the cycle of life and two lovers.
What is "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
There is only one punctuation mark in the poem to represent this.
What is the end of a cycle of life; death?
Where he went to college.
What is Harvard?
This symbol is significant because it shows different ways of thinking.
What is a tree?
The prize that he won in 1955.
What is the Pulitzer prize for poetry?
These works fit into this category of poetry.
What is modern poetry?
What is critical, yet sympathetic?
The book in which his earliest poems were published.
The structure of the poem
What is 13 stanzas written in free verse?
He studied and practiced this in New York City.
What is law?
The theme of "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird".
What is looking at something from all different perspectives in order to gain a more developed understanding?
The symbolism of these two elements function to show the progression of time through the poem
What is celestial bodies and seasons/weather?
The ways in which his poems were unconventional.
What is they strayed from normal grammatical and linguistic rules?
This season is presented in the poem through imagery.
The name of his first book in which "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" was published.
What is Harmonium?
This is what the two poems have in common.
What is dealing with thinking about life at a deeper than surface level?
The paradox present functions to show the contrast between these two meanings (line 12)
He considered this a period of inner growth for himself.
What is time spent in an internment camp?
This allusion functions to call out people who are too focused on superficial aspects of their own lives to think on a deeper level.
What are the thin men of Haddam?
He held this position from 1934 until his death.
What is vice president of an insurance firm?
The acronym used to analyze poems and what the letters stand for.
What is TP-CASTT; title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title, theme?
As one grows older, innocence is lost, and people fall into mundane routines that lack a sense of purpose
What is a theme of this poem?
His poems mainly focused on these topics.
What are themes of love, childhood, and flowers?