Analysis Of Billy Collins Introduction To Poetry

In “Introduction to Poetry”, the writer Billy Collins sends out a message to all readers, implying that when reading a poem, one should be patient in finding the meaning to it and be open minded. Billy Collins uses metaphors and personification as a different way of sending out his message to the readers. The poem contains both syntax and diction. The type of syntax that is in the poem is more of a free verse rather than a sonnet structure with meter and rhyming. “I want them to Waterski across the surface of the poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.” is an example of the type of sentences that show a free verse with no rhyming included. Now on to the type of diction that is shown, it would be more of a formal diction with a positive