This poem is about a person on the outside who is viewing the two girls as they find out about life. The first stanza drives me to think that the two girls are reading a poem together that was composed by the individual on the outside while laying in the grass on a warm summer day. I can see them understanding it, and translating it to mean something that strikes a feeling or sudden understanding inside of them. Later on it says that the girls, "have forgotten the secret" which I take to imply that they haven't really pondered about the poem since they first read it together and that the secret was all the more a childhood revelation than something no one has ever found. In the line that says , "I who don't know the secret
In the first stanza, “one leaned on the other as if to throw her down” symbolism has been used to show the intensity of the embrace between the two. In stanza two, “and finally almost uprooted him” symbolism has been used to show how much the female dominates in this relationship. “He was thin, dry, insecure one” this symbolized that the male did not have much power nor say in the relationship.
Poetry is something that is to be read delicately and cautiously if one wanted to find meaning through the words. Readers have to be gentle and patiently ponder about what they are reading in order to find any significance in the poem. If someone is not patient with reading, they will not feel impacted by poetry and will not want to read it. In Billy Collins’, “Introduction to Poetry,” he uses figurative language to help readers see that the way to enjoy and understand poetry is by reading between the lines and being patient with how each individual relates to the readings.
The poem appears to display a free verse. The poem has an interesting way of showing the point of view of the protagonists. The poem is made up of two stanzas, and each stanza has a different point of view. The first stanza is written in the perspective of the Border Patrol and the second stanza shows the perspective of the Mexican women. The first stanza is the Border Patrol talking about the advantage they have over her. “I get the badge and sunglasses./ You can hide and run,/ but you can’t get away/ because I have a jeep” (Mora 1216). The Border Patrol agent thinks he has an advantage because he has the resources to stop the woman and she has nothing to fight back. He is implying that she can run and hide, but in the end he will find her because in his perspective he thinks he has an advantage. The second stanza shows the perspective of the Mexican woman. “I know this desert,/ where to rest,/ where to drink” (Mora 1217). The woman thinks she has an advantage and although she does not have all the resources the border patrol has she knows how to survive. The border patrol agent is alone but she is in her land and knows her way around. The perspective of both the Border Patrol agent and the Mexican woman shows irony. Each think they have an advantage in the setting. The tone demonstrated in the poem is optimistic because both seemed to be confident. They are confident of their sources to survive.
Billy Collins is one of the most credited poets of this century and last. He is a man of many talents, most recognized though by his provocative and riveting poetry. As John McEnroe was to the sport of tennis, Billy Collins has done the same for the world of poetry. Collin’s rejected the old ways of poetry, created his own form, broke all the rules, and still retains the love and respect of the poet community. Collins has received the title of Poet Laureate of the United States twice and also has received countless awards and acknowledgements. He has achieved this through a style of poetry that is not over-interpreted and hard to understand to most, but that of the complete opposite, his poetry is hospitable and playful.
The poem starts out with the daughter 's visit to her father and demand for money; an old memory is haunting the daughter. feeding off her anger. The daughter calls the father "a ghost [who] stood in [her] dreams," indicating that he is dead and she is now reliving an unpleasant childhood memory as she stands in front of his
Jim Daniels may not write poetry as eloquently as one would expect, but his style matches the subject matter he writes about perfectly. Indeed, it is this unrefined colloquial style, which allows Mr. Daniels to capture the essence of working class Detroit and relay it to the reader. His words may be somewhat coarse and he does not hesitate to use profanity, but one is still able to find beauty in his writing. The same can be said about the working class society, in which Jim Daniels was born and raised.
The tone of the poem is affectionate because she shows her love towards her husband through this poem. Words that reveal this tone is “prize” meaning that she values his love. Another word that describes the tone would be “repay”, she’s saying that there is no way she can recompense his love with anything else.
Throughout the poem there is only one narrator, a man or woman. The narrator is of high importance to the one being spoken too, so possibly a girlfriend or boyfriend. This narrator alludes to the idea that dreams and reality can be one in the same. The narrator says, “You are not wrong, who deem/That my days have been a dream;” (Line 4-5). The narrator explains that the moments spent with her have felt almost, if not, a perfect dream. The narrator also says, in the closing lines of the first stanza, “All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.” (Line 10-11). The narrator concludes like dreams, reality is not controlled; reality is what you make it, or what you see. Moreover, in the second stanza the narrator
Chalk for snow and blackboard skies are just a few vivid images in a Billy Collins poem that he wrote in 1985 called “Schoolsville.” In Poetry Foundation’s article on “Billy Collins” it says, “But Collins has offered a slightly different take on his appeal, admitting that his poetry is ‘Suburban, its’ domestic, it’s middle class, and it’s sort of unashamedly that.’” Collins in his years was a professor at several schools such as Columbia University and City University of New York. His first poem was published in 2001, and shortly followed by many more books that were written about everyday life. “Schoolsville” is about a teacher looking back on past students. There are both fond and disappointing memories of students and the world around them. The teacher is the mayor of this world as he would be the authority as a teacher never leaving his position. Collins uses vivid imagery and personification to help the reader understand how they are feeling.
Far from the usual poems that I am familiar with, this poem consists of fragments. When read with the expectation of instantly gaining a coherent idea or message, one would be puzzled of the writing style and might initially think it’s full of senseless lines. It’s quite a challenge to gain full understanding of the message the poem wants to give out.
The first four lines set up the poem, in that it creates an allusion of Eva and Con because Yeats does not actually mention them by name but we know that he is talking about them. This is because the two girls grew up at Lissadell and he thought both girls were very beautiful. He compares Eva to a gazelle because she was tall and he thought she was graceful and elegant, like a gazelle. We can assume that when Yeats says “The light of evening, Lissadell” he is referring to that time in their life was over for the girls and it is coming to the end of the day. We know that the two girls were brought up in an aristocratic family but gave it all up to live different and fervent lifestyles, this could be the 'light of evening' or the end of their lives as aristocrats.
This poem helps us to recognize and appreciate beauty through its dream sequence and symbolism. The poem opens with the Dreamer describing this
The main line that directs the poems feelings is "The wraith of Love's sweet Rose is here, It haunts me everywhere! ". The ghost of "Love's sweet rose" is in my life and mind. The ghost of that rose is in my presents and is with her everywhere she goes.
For this assignment, I have decided to write about a famous poem of Billy Collins which is titled as ‘Introduction to Poetry’ written in 1996.
"Untitled," the first poem in the novel uses first person and third person to convey the heartache found with love. "The adorable one..."(Strand 3), is relative to explaining a youngness in age. Which helped me decipher the poem being about young love or puppy love. The poet Strand uses Flashback to build images of the setting. Strand uses Alliteration, "Lavender light,"(3), to describe the scene. I got the sense the young couple were ending their relationship in a dusk setting.