Man Listening To Disc Billy Collins Analysis

While reading the poem Man Listening to Disc, one rapidly understands that its author thinks listening to music on headphones is a good habit, or at least that it isn’t a problem. First of all, the main character has headphones on the whole time in the poem, as he heads in downtown New York. Moreover, the main emotions express by that character are delight (line 12), gratitude (line 15) and confidence (line 26-28). The fact that Billy Collins associates such positives emotions to the music his characters is listening suggests he would not think of headphones as a problem, but mostly as a good thing. Indeed, it is the headphones that allow this character to enjoy his music so deeply, because he is cut from the outside world. It creates a bubble