Thirteen Ways of Looing at a Blackbird

Edward Picot, whose web art interpretation of Wallace Steven’s poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, has a Ph.D in English Literature. His interpretation of Steven’s poem is a flash piece that visually shows what the artist talks about in his poem. When you visit the website, you can interact with the piece by clicking on a tree, each part of the tree braches has a number, and the user can thus interact by clicking on one of the different thirteen tree branches, and find out for themselves the thirteen different ways of looking at a blackbird.

The overall mood that I get from the piece, especially in the beginning, is that it is mellow, and has a dark tone to it. Although it has lots of different pictures and bright colors in it, I still feel it is mellow. It is an interesting piece and one that can be visually stimulating for young children to learn and dive deeper into poetry.