Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Awe and Amazement

At several places in the poem, the speaker juxtaposes (places side by side) images of vast landscapes and the blackbird. He makes the blackbird seem totally powerful and mysterious by making its eyeball the focal point of the whole scene. To the imagination, that eye seems as big as the giant eye of the T-Rex in that famous scene from Jurassic Park.

The use of complex vocab-words like "inflections" and "innuendos" actually makes the speaker sound less amazed. He puts his intense feelings into intellectual terms.

One of the reasons the blackbird is so amazing is that it inspires the speaker's imagination. The sensations caused by the sight of the blackbird are indescribable, so he's left with vague, hard-to-follow expressions like "mood traced in the shadow" and "indecipherable cause."

Again, the speaker's imagination creates the reality surrounding the blackbird. He's not just amazed by the bird; he's amazed by the circles.

It's hard to rouse those "bawds of euphony," who usually only get excited by very harmonious sounds and images, but the blackbird has them crying out in amazement.