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Poem Review: Class Picture, 1954 By Billy Collins

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Class Picture, 1954 by Billy Collins is about a man who reflects on his class picture and memories of childhood. I see the speaker as someone that stumbled upon this relic of a photograph when ravaging through old boxes in the attic. The speaker then has all the memories of childhood flood his mind and he giddily tells the reader who the other students are. In the way the poem is written, it seems like the reader is a spouse or the speaker’s children. The speaker begins the poem reflecting on memories in stanza’s one through four; his/her “normal” school, with his “normal” crush, his “normal” friends, and his “normal” family in the distance of this “normal” memory. In the fifth stanza, the poem seems to take a fantasy turn when they say,
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