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The Insomnia By Billy Collins Analysis

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I really enjoyed reading this poem and I felt as if it had a lot of meaning. In the Insomnia poem the use of literary really gave me a image to me was Collins’s use of detail, instead of just skimming through what he goes through each night trying to fall asleep he has a lists that of things that will go on and on about how many different things he thinks about each night making the reader actually understand what it is like for him trying to fall asleep and it shows how much trouble he has sleeping. Collins also uses descriptive words to show the reader that he has been having trouble and he's been counting animals and trying to fall asleep with the line, “I picture all fish in leaping a fence in a field of water, and all the fish are beautiful
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