Explain what you understand about the first stanza?
Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
- Explain what you understand about the first stanza?
- Why does Collins use a hive as a metaphor?
- Explain the meaning of having the reader waterski?
- Explain why Billy Collins ends the poem in the way he does.
- Explain in a well written paragraph how this poem fits into all the other things you have read about poetry.
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