Hyperbole In Introduction To Poetry
“Introduction to Poetry” contains imagery, hyperbole, and ethos. The purpose of the poem is to explain how to write a poem. Collins includes the struggles of understanding a poem and getting the audience to understand how to do it correctly. Collins also tells how students overthink poems meanings.
Imagery is used all throughout this poem. Collins describes everything in precise detail so that the audience can have an exceptional mental picture. “I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem…” Collins wants the audience to skim through the poem, just on the surface to see if the audience knows what it means. This is imagery because by using these words you can picture a person waterskiing across a surface. Collins uses waterskiing to …show more content…
Collins exaggerates most things about how to write a poem in this poem. “But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.” The audience can conclude that a poem actually cannot be tortured, nor is the audience really going to tie the poem to a chair. Collins over exaggerates the digging that the students do to the poem. “They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” This is another encounter with exaggeration, the audience is not going to actually beat the poem with a hose. The poem cannot be beaten, it simply means they dig deep to find out the true meaning. They dig too deep to find the meaning when it is unnecessary because the meaning is simple and out front.
The author, Billy Collins, is credible. Collins is a poet and author, he knows what to do when writing poetry, especially since this is a poem. “Introduction to Poetry. By Billy Collins.” Collins understands what it is like to write poetry and sometimes not be successful, he has experience, and he is trying to share with everyone all the things about poetry.
Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry” has many rhetorical devices, some stood out more than others. This poem is simply a poem about how students overthink the meaning of poems, when they are very simple. Collins is saying basically it should be that hard to understand what is right in front of
Imagery is used all throughout this poem. Collins describes everything in precise detail so that the audience can have an exceptional mental picture. “I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem…” Collins wants the audience to skim through the poem, just on the surface to see if the audience knows what it means. This is imagery because by using these words you can picture a person waterskiing across a surface. Collins uses waterskiing to …show more content…
Collins exaggerates most things about how to write a poem in this poem. “But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.” The audience can conclude that a poem actually cannot be tortured, nor is the audience really going to tie the poem to a chair. Collins over exaggerates the digging that the students do to the poem. “They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” This is another encounter with exaggeration, the audience is not going to actually beat the poem with a hose. The poem cannot be beaten, it simply means they dig deep to find out the true meaning. They dig too deep to find the meaning when it is unnecessary because the meaning is simple and out front.
The author, Billy Collins, is credible. Collins is a poet and author, he knows what to do when writing poetry, especially since this is a poem. “Introduction to Poetry. By Billy Collins.” Collins understands what it is like to write poetry and sometimes not be successful, he has experience, and he is trying to share with everyone all the things about poetry.
Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry” has many rhetorical devices, some stood out more than others. This poem is simply a poem about how students overthink the meaning of poems, when they are very simple. Collins is saying basically it should be that hard to understand what is right in front of