In class, we looked at two interesting poems, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by  Wallace Stevens and And What Do You Get by Heather McHugh. Both poems were very well written and I liked both of them, they were different from poems that I have read in the past.

     In Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Wallace Stevens gave us different ways to view a blackbird. Most people see a blackbird and think of life and death; Wallace had the same image, but he also had other views as far as the beauty of them and how we are all alike as one. An example of that would be;

"A man and a woman

 Are one.

 A man and a woman and a blackbird

 Are one."

     Although, the poem written by Steven was very well and intelligent, I believe What Do You Get by Heather McHugh was my favorite, in my opinion. I love the use of wordplay and how she did hers. She took words apart and added others together and asked: "what do you get?" In her poem, it focused on wordplay and how taking away a letter or adding a letter can change the word and meaning completely to something completely different. One of my favorite examples for this would be;

".....take the the from

therapist, split accent with an id---"

If you look at what she wrote, you can tell that by taking the the out, it changes therapist to rapist and splitting accent with an id changes accent to accident, which is seemingly correct seeing how therapist can change to rapist instantly, changing the word and meaning.