Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird!??!?

Question

Can anyone PLEASE help interpret this poem for me? I can't find anything, and honestly, it doesn't make much sense to me...

I

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.

II

I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

III

The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV

A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

V

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

VI

Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

VII

O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

VIII

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

IX

When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

X

At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.

XI

He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.

XII

The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.

XIII

It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

Wallace Stevens

Answer 1

Try this, warning though, it is probably harder to understand than the poem itself:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/blackbird.htm

Answer 2

The title, "13 Ways to Look at a Blackbird" means what it says. There are 13 verses or small poems about blackbirds, each one self-contained and unrelated to the others, except for the centrality of the blackbird.
The blackbird is a daily sight, a common bird, but is also a beautiful and highly symbolic to this author.
The reference to Haddam in VII tells us the setting is in Kansas.
The blackbirds he's talking about are Brewer's blackbirds, an American species unrelated to the English blackbird. When not breeding, they often go in flocks.
I like VI, in which he sees a blackbird flying back and forth past an icicle encrusted window, not knowing why it is flying around.
In VII, maybe he's talking about canaries or maybe gold jewelry or ornaments, but he wonders why bother with those when you have blackbirds.
The "bawds of euphony"? Who is that? The pimps of music? Even they would be moved by the sight of blackbirds.
XI The Easterner is scared of blackbirds, but he didn't really see any after all. Maybe big city dwellers are afraid of nature? Or maybe they don't know the difference between blackbirds and crows, carrion eaters?
XII When the river isn't frozen solid, the blackbirds are around.
XIII When it's snowing the blackbirds sit in trees.
These are just some of my thoughts; I can only guess some of the meanings, others are pretty obvious.

Answer 3

uhhhh?!