To begin with, poetry is not one of my strongest suits. I actually only enjoy poetry when I actually understand it (which is not often). I guess I have not been expose to poetry enough but by the looks of it (syllabus) I should start getting comfortable. Not to mention our "awesome" Literature book that is as twice as fat the Bible.
However, I did enjoy this poem called Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins. I totally agree with the man who says that people should actually sit down and enjoy these meaningful poems. Instead of draining these poems until they are fully desiccated. Teachers, especially English teachers, make the students dissect every single phrase in a poem. Cutting up a poem into little pieces makes it harder to appreciate it as a whole. That is what I think Mr. Collins is trying to say in this poem.
Also I really liked how he used all those metaphors to compare how it should be when reading a poem. I really enjoyed the metaphor he used when people analyze a poem:
But all I they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
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