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Poetry Slam!: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens

In this poem, Stevens presents a series of sometimes enigmatic impressions—or "sensations," to use Stevens's word—of blackbirds. As you learn this list, be sure to consider how a word's multiple meanings might be at play in any given line or stanza.
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