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Summary Of Poem By Billy Collins

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1. What is your first reaction to this poem? Feelings about it? Possible meanings? - My first reaction to this poem was a feeling of excitement. The language and narrative in which the author was describing the scenery was thrilling. The author conveyed to the reader that he was curious about his surroundings which in return made me curious as well. Parts of the poem did leave me feeling quite perplexed. Towards the middle of the poem the tone and mood switched which was odd to me. The tone began to become very dark. The author begins to ask many more questions and expresses many more thoughts at this point in the poem. At the end of the poem the mood changes back to a mood that was expressed at the start of the poem. After reading the poem, …show more content…

(cite). This quote was shocking to me because it changed the entire mood of the poem. It left me as a reader curious as to what the author was referring to. It also left me wondering what kind of person the author was. Prior to reading this quote, I was not sure of what the author or character portrayed in the poem was like. Through this quote, the author reviled a bit of himself to the reader. 4. What seems to be the mood or feeling of this poem? What words create this mood? - The mood or feeling of this poem is curiosity, excitement, evil, and reflection. The author conveys the mood by using words such as “living crowd”, “gladness”, “bright flow”, and “dazzled”. Towards the middle of the selection, the poem begins to get very dark. The author reviled to the reader that he knew was it was like to be evil. This is conveyed through the quote “I am he who knew what it was to be evil” (cite). The author also used words such as “stole”, “lied”, and “anger”. The way in which the author describes the crowds of people, the different scenery, etc. with the use of words such as these lead the reader to believe that the author is fascinated about what he is experiencing. The author seems very curious and intrigued with the crowd interaction and the landscape (sky, river, sunset,

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