Blackbird w/o The Beatles

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens (Thanks fj)

This is the stanza I particularly liked:

VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

You can read the whole poem here: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html


p.s. Its National Poetry Month. I am more than a little excited.