Billy Collins Introduction To Poetry Summary

Billy Collins wrote a poem with the title is “Introduction to Poetry.” This is a free verse poem that includes sixteen lines and seven stanzas. There is no rhyme scheme. The meter is unusual. As in most daily conversation, the voice lowers then rises as stresses change. The metaphors such as hive, mouse, and simile are present, as is personification: to torture a confession out of it. These all bring energy, texture, and imagery into the poem, which makes the poem more interesting read. Especially, this poem has an educational tone. The speaker stood before the reader like a teacher. The speaker uses the imperative words to give a clue such as I ask, I say, I want so, the reader may recognize and understand the message of the poem. Also, the speaker uses the metaphorical and beautiful images. This images appeared strongly throughout this poem. Hence, the tone is one of artful instruction and an appeal to the more sensitive. The also speaker introduces the positive things such as a light,

Therefore, I felt this poem a disguises, conceit through the metaphor and the simile. Indeed, the poem play important roles in establishing the custom of the poem. Indeed, the poem is like a slide what we have here is a simile. We may understand more about Collin’s poem in the third stanza. He used a non-rhyming couplet with two lines. Again, with a request to the readers, the readers start with “a mouse is dropped into the poem,” which implies to a newcomer has never approached to the poem before. So, the mouse may be lost at first, but if the mouse knows how to use the whiskers and nose, the mouse will escape the maze. Also, if the students know how to use their understanding about the poem, they will find the way out of the language's mazes. Thus, patience and skill are the good tools for students to approach and kill the