Life is like a movie. It can be overly filled with joy or as serious as a math final exam. The world is made up of elements like happiness, sadness, joy, sorrow and with these elements comes a time in life where it can be related to certain situations such as times in school. School is like a having second life and in the poem “Schoolsville,” Billy Collins portrays the idea that school is related to life itself as it is comical, serious, memorable, and poignant. It shows how life itself can be like school and how the comical, serious, memorable, as well as poignant elements of life are represented.
Life is filled with duties and things that we have to do to show our progress with the tasks we have been given. In school, assignments are given every day to give the students in order to receive a grade and progress in the class. Collins states “The A’s stroll along with other A’s. / The D’s honk whenever they pass another D” (Page 535). The
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In life, there are so many wrong doings and temptations that cause us to lose sight of what is right and should be done instead. “One in a while a student knocks on the door / with a term paper fifteen years late” (535). This quote shows that regret can weigh heavily on someone’s life and if not fixed it can continue to haunt you for years to come. Choices are made a million times a day and thought about a thousand times an hour but still can cause us to later on regret those small decisions we didn’t put enough thought into.
In this poem “Schoolsville,” Collins explains how life can relate to school, as well as using the elements of comedy, seriousness, memory, and poignancy to express a general idea on life. Life’s experiences can be happy or sad, serious or funny but in the end we all know what we have accomplished within our time. Trials and tribulations may shape us but we all are responsible for the outcomes of our