Billy Collins once said‚ “Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.” Collins truly sends his readers to new places with his poems. Billy Collins writes with childhood‚ and memories as his main themes. By writing about childhood‚ and memories from the past Collins brings his reader into the poem. Everyone reading his poems has had a childhood‚ and has memories of that childhood
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1. The speaker is the traveler. He is adventurous‚ a risk taker‚ and open to new experiences. 2. He is speaking to all those making decisions on which way to go. He is offering advice to those who are uncertain of what they want. 3. The occasion is a man reflecting on his life and what choices allowed for him to be where he is at. 4. This poem should be set during the fall‚ around the turn of the seasons. I believe this poem is timeless for anyone could be in this same situation. However
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where they maybe going or what their life will lead to. Billy Collins‚ the author of numerous poems including Introduction to Poetry and Schoolsville shows the aspects of this theory throughout his works. Collins provides enough details and description to let the reader know where they are when reading his poems‚ but not necessarily always where he is going with them. While most poets hide information or the fine points from us‚ Billy Collins does not. Instead‚ he indulges the reader with his clear
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Billy Collins Billy Collins was born on March 22‚ 1941 in New York‚ NY and is married to Diane Collins. He is the son of Katherine M. Collins and William S. Collins. Collins received a Bachelors Degree at the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and also received a Ph.D. in romantic poetry in 1971. He has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and also was a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He is an English Professor at Lehman College for CUNY‚ where he has been teaching
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famous poets out there but “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times‚ states that Billy Collins carries that position. Collins is famous for conversational‚ witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky‚ tender or profound observation on the everyday‚ reading and writing‚ and poetry itself. He has such a wonderful way of writing his poetry to appeal to any audience and that will make you chuckle to yourself. He is a very creative and enthusiastic
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In "Introduction to poetry"‚ the poet uses personification at the end of his poem. He uses a lot of it in the last two stanzas. Collins writes‚ 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 (12-16). When he writes this‚ It shows personification. Poetry takes on characteristics that can only
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“Embrace” By Billy Collins The most effective way for a poem to speak to the reader is by using a way of indirectly representing an image or an event. When the poet uses a filter‚ or a metaphor‚ he makes a figurative instead of a literal reference. Taking a look at Billy Collins’ poem‚ “Embrace” it is easy to think that the whole message from beginning to end is that this person was feeling lonely enough to hold himself. He is a little over the edge‚ and since there is no one around to embrace
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Allusions in Bill Collins’ “Sonnet” By definition‚ an allusion is a reference‚ within a literary work‚ to another work of fiction‚ a film‚ a piece of art or even a real event and it serves as a kind of shorthand‚ drawing on this outside work to provide greater context or meaning to the situation being written about (Wiehardt). In poetry‚ allusion is a must device for it standard form. If using allusions is great‚ smart and economical ways for the author to communicate with the reader with least
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In the poem‚ “The Most of It”‚ Robert Frost uses the literary devices diction‚ tone and imagery to render the main idea of the poem. The main idea of the poem is the desire of wanting the most of it (life) than what was originally given. In Robert Frost’s “The Most of It”‚ Frost portrays a man wanting the most out of life. Throughout the poem‚ the man is in the outdoors hoping to discover a response regarding his desire to receive more out of life but soon feels dispirited when he sustains nothing
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Billy Collins William James “Billy” Collins was born in March 22‚ 1941 in New York City to William and Katherine Collins. Katherine Collins was a nurse who sparked Billy’s interest in words and poetry. His mother was able to recite on most subjects. In 1963‚ he received his B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross and his Masters’ and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California‚ Riverside. Collins joined the faculty of Lehman College in 1968 and has been teaching for over thirty
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