Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins - Video Interpretation

Video interpretation of the poem "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
by Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poems room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the authors name on the shore.

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.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Introduction
• to
• Poetry
• Billy
• Collins

[lewiesbotha]

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[DebbieDawnsLight]

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[xylina1111]

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