Question

Wallace stevens poem thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird reflects the modernist principle of:

A. The Careful Unity of Experience
B. The continuity of events
C. The passive role of the reader
D. Numerous Shifts in perspective
E. The affirmation of earlier traditional structures

Answer 1

The correct answer is D.

The poem discusses thirteen ways of looking at a bird. Each way is different from the others. In this way, Stevens is illustrating how perspective varies from person to person and from moment to moment.

Even the same person can view a bird differently -- how he or she sees it on Monday may not be the same as how he or she sees it on Friday. Furthermore, how one person views it is different from how someone else sees it. Perspective is varied and numerous.