Reflections on Work and Career. Site commenced on: September I Read Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins. In the same token, meanings can only be revealed over multiple readings and time, with careful interpretation.
Yet, the last two stanzas provide a sharp contrast to the previous stanzas, in terms of tone and imagery. It adds a mocking, yet humorous tone to the whole poem, jeering at the incorrect attitudes of students towards poetry, hoping to alert the readers at the same time. And the comparisons he provides correspond to the title of the poem well, as Collins is trying to remind and teach the readers that they should be patient and observant when reading a poem.
All in all, Collins enlightens his readers with an important message, that is, we have to get inside the poem to experience, rather than just figuring out the meaning through skimming it. Indeed, this theory does not only apply to the appreciation of poetry, but nowadays, it applies to a lot of daily situations, for example, when we meet new people and interact with them. We cannot judge a person by his appearance and stereotype him due to our own biases. On Turning Ten. The History Teacher.
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