The poems “Introduction to Poetry” and “Ars Poetica” try to show how poems represent information. Poems often use subtle metaphors to translate their feelings, these poems are trying to demonstrate that by, perhaps, overusing metaphors so readers will know exactly what to look for. Billy Collins writes in his poem “Introduction to Poetry”, “I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out”. Collins is suggesting that if the reader studies and explores the poem that underlying information will be discovered. In the poem “Ars Poetica” authored by Archibald Macleish, it states “A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.” Macleish is suggesting that meanings and ideas can be inferred from the feeling that poems leave