Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" is a way of declaring that no blackbird exists and that instead there are only varieties of imaginary perspective that may bring blackbirds into being".
In "Dark Back of Time" he mixes autobiography and fiction to demonstrate how "All Souls" showed "a skewed Oxford, a replica seen from my imaginary or false perspective".
This imaginary exercise in perspective thus seems to support moral skepticism: the very idea of independent, stable moral truths will seem suspect (playing no role in the explanation of the origins of various possible moral senses), and our confidence that our moral sense would track them in any case will seem unwarranted.
Have students take a few moments, working individually, to write a creative paragraph in which they describe the appearance and character of an imaginary bank robber from the perspective of a police officer.
Beyond their summaries of the fight, we asked each spouse to write about the conflict from the perspective of a neutral third party who wants the best for both spouses — and, from the perspective of this imaginary individual, to identify, if possible, any single positive aspect to the argument.
Kogito's childhood memories of the tragedy are filtered through dreams, fantasy and folklore, distorting perspectives embodied by an imaginary doppelgänger called Kogii.
Its songs were written from the perspectives of various women, often imaginary, many of whom were trying to see past the horizons they had been conditioned to accept.
At this point, our perspective shifts to this animated, imaginary world.
When Masaccio set up shop in Florence, he was befriended by Brunelleschi and Donatello, who had recently worked out a way to represent space using imaginary converging lines and vanishing points — linear perspective.
Take the situation you are in and try to see it from different perspectives--call on an imaginary panel of people you respect real or fictional--what would their take be?
