Compare And Contrast Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird And Song Of Myself

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Comparison of Song of Myself, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird I will be comparing the poems “Song of Myself”, by Walt Whitman and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, by Wallace Stevens. Walt Whitman declares in his poem that he is celebrating himself, he also invites his soul to stare at a “blade of grass”, he describes it as the “party of the year”. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird imagines a blackbird or multiple blackbirds in several types of settings. Each of the thirteen stanzas in the poem mentions the word “blackbird”, but not all of the stanzas are about blackbirds. The poem follows a circular type pattern starting in the mountains in the first stanza, then moving toward human society toward the middle of the