"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds."
— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Author
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Date
December, 1917
Metaphor
"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds."
Metaphor in Context
II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
(ll. 4-6)
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
(ll. 4-6)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Stevens, Wallace. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" Others: An Anthology of the New Verse (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917), 109-11. <Link to Google Books>
Reprinted in Harmonium (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923), 135-37. <Link to RPO>
Reprinted in Harmonium (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923), 135-37. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
12/17/2009
