In a 5 paragraph formal essay discuss one or more of the poems of Billy Collins in terms of ONE of these literary devices
stick to ONE only here
style
theme
metaphors
hyperbole
or some other literary device
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.
Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry from The Apple that Astonished Paris. Copyright 1988, 1996 by Billy Collins. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Arkansas Press.
Source: The Apple that Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1996)
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