The popular American Poet, Billy Collins, is playing a significant role in the evolution of poetry. His writing style evokes an array of emotions for the reader. Every stanza in his poetry passes the satirical standard that he generated for himself over his career. Collins swiftly captivates his readers through his diverse use of figurative language. More specifically, his use of vivid imagery paired with humorous personification and extended metaphors create his unique style of satirical poetry. This developed form of writing appeals to a large crowd of people because the generally accessible topics that he discusses are fairly easy to resonate for the common man. However, his poetry offers an interesting perspective on what otherwise would be simplistic ideas. The main themes and concepts that are being presented in each of his writings are revered and coveted by the general population. An appealing aspect of his writing is his ability to directly convey the main idea within the poem. As a result, the reader can understand the meaning of his work with ease. The typical beginning of his work gives the reader a slight taste of what is to come. Billy Collins’ unique writing style and various trademarks directly influenced by his ability to propagate an array of emotions for the reader, his humorous tone, and the accessibility of the topics he describes within his poetry. The literary journey that Collins takes his readers when they read his poetry instills an assortment of powerful emotions. While acting as the poet laureate for the United States of America in 2001, he was asked by congress to write a poem recognizing the attacks on 9/11. The name of the poem is called “The Names” and it provokes a sense patriotism, sadness, a... ... middle of paper ... ... think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty,” he said. “But the real question is what happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem.” (pg 454) . The unique type of poems Collins produces is welcoming to any reader. In the poem The Lanyard, Collins discusses the impossibility of fully repaying mother figure for all of their sacrifices by writing, “She nursed me in many a sick room/lifted teaspoons of medicine to my lips/set cold facecloths on my forehead/then led me out into the airy light/and taught me to walk and swim and I in turn presented her with a lanyard./"Here are thousands of meals" she said,/"and here is clothing and a good education."/"And here is your lanyard," I replied,/"which I made with a little help from a counselor." Nearly everyone has a mother and can resonate this poem without trouble.
Question/Section #2 Why and how are these strategies creative? Do these strategies correspond with stages of development mentioned in the textbook?
Collins’ poems aren’t preachy or meant to teach a lesson; their purpose is to help readers be exposed to different ways of seeing things. Collins seems to go through life with his head slightly tilted; he finds amusement in both the ordinary
Accidents are happening everywhere. In the past few years, for examples, there were many people driving cars after drinking liquor, and peoples might have get injury or died after happened the car accident, Furthermore plane crash, explosion, or a disease, this still happening to people who are innocent but are they safe? Maybe there are still chances but not a lot of people have it. ‘’Hatchet,’’ by Gary Paulsen, is about an airplane accident happened to a young boy named Brian in Canada, and Brian had to survive with his hatchet and knowledge until someone finds him. Certainly Brian uses his positive thinking to solve everything he faced like making fire. Aside that Brian also used his knowledge to find food, protection and find himself
Collins uses visualization, emotions, and comparisons within several natural and man-made objects in respect to all the victims that tragically passed away that dreadful day. By specifically identifying several individuals in this poem, Collins found a way to honor those people that died on September 11, 2001.
The Lanyard written by Billing Collins underlines the childhood of the author and with the help of literary devices such as repetition which puts the emphasis on ideology of quantity versus quality. Collins is also making use of time and flashbacks to compare and contrast the adulthood and childhood and realizing how much he could have done and how much he did. The poem talks about the Collins’s childhood and how his mother would always take care of him, give him everything she could and in return she got the lanyard. No matter what his mother did for him, he will always give her the lanyard which he made with help from counselor as he says in humorous tone, “…and here is your lanyard, I replied, which I made with a little help from a counselor”(stanza 5).
In Billy Collins poem, “Introduction to Poetry”, Billy basically inspire us to have fun with poetry instead of over looking it because lack of understanding. He conveys this message in “Introduction to Poetry” by writing:
Collins uses imagery to depict an image within the readers minds in order to get them emotionally attached to this piece of work. Collin starts off in the first stanza describing the night like a peaceful breeze. He then calmly observes the raindrops dripping slow down his windows until they disappear in “a soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze” (2-3). He then saw this silver glaze on the windows and at this moment he started naming the last names of victims from the 9/11 events. As the list gets up to the letter E for Eberling he stops as the names fall into place as the “droplets fell through the dark” (7). Collins creates this great picture when he states “names printed on the ceiling of the night Names slipping around o a watery bend.
The book i read was hatchet i choses this book because i never read it and i like books that servile and outdoor activities involved. The main character was Brian Robertson. He was a child of two divorced parents that lived in new york. And he and his mom live together and his dad live very far away so he takes a plane to go see his dad. The first time that he went to see his dad he had to meet the pilot and he did not talk but 5 words to him before the. So brain knew that something was wrong. jim / jake was letting out some gas that would fill the plane and make it smell bad then he started to feel pain then he had a heartache. This is one of the smaller problems that lead up to the big problem. Befor brain got to the runway his mom gave
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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 for over 30 years. In June of 2001, Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003). In January of 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-2006.
Bill Collins is a very well-known and popular poet. He has written over fifty poems in his career. He was born in New York and later became a professor at a university in New York and other universities. While reading our text, Literature to Go, I found the explanations which the poet provided after the poems to be very fascinating. They provided great insight and perspective on the poets thoughts, the poems meaning and the writing process of his poems
Values are spread all around the world, and many people’s values differ. These can lead to people being judged, or indirectly characterized by other people. In “The Necklace” Mme. Loisel is a beautiful woman with a decent life, and a husband that loves her, and only wants to make her happy. She is not rich but she makes it along, she insists of a better, wealthier life. When her husband gets her invited to a ball, she feels the need for a brand new fancy dress and tons of jewelry. When the couple realizes they cannot afford jewelry as well, they search out to borrow her friend, Mme. Forestiers’ necklace. She comes to notice she no longer has the necklace on when she leaves the ball. This later troubles her, as she has to work for a long time to collect enough money to buy a new necklace. This story describes the relationship between a couple, who have different dreams, and how desires can revamp your life. Guy de Maupassant, the author of “The Necklace” uses literary devices to prove people come before materialistic items.
Some readers may define the tone as anger in James Stephen's "A Glass of Beer." Others may even say that it leaves an unpleasant tone. By studying the choice of words that Stephen uses to convey the tone of his scene, I will demonstrate that beneath the seemingly outraged situation of the poem lies something funnier. The true tone of "A Glass of Beer" is a sardonic one.
Collins accepts his reality and most of his poem is from a solemn tone. From history we know Collins’s father suffered from dementia so he was trying to justify his forgetfulness as part of life in which we’re all supposed to go through. This poem is for all audience: for young people is for them to understand someday they will go through it, and for the older ones tries to make empathy that if they are going through it, it’s
To begin with, Collins uses a variety of positive metaphors to depict how he believes poetry should be interpreted. It is made clear that he sees poetry as art that is to bee felt and enjoyed. Collins believes that poetry should be analyzed through how it makes the reader feel, not through analyzing the literary techniques it uses. This is exemplified as he describes