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Response To Poetry Billy Collins
I truly reading this poem, because it creates a beautiful image. Words such as peaceful,sunlight,haze, and “the far horizon fading away” helped create that beautiful image. The image I was visualizing had a beautiful farm that was very quiet and peaceful, and I also pictured a beautiful sun setting. Additionally, one thing that I think would've taken this poem to the next level , is a shift in the mood. Throughout the poem the poet is discussing about very calm and peaceful things, but if the poet added a extra line or two about something very dark/evil I think that would have been amazing.In addition, I also feel like it was quite difficult to stay on track due to the excessive amount of commas. As we learned in class punctuation in poetry
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