Intro To Poetry
- 1. Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem¡¯s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to water-ski across the surface of a poem waving at the author¡¯s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. ( Billy Collins)
- 2. Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
- 3. or press an ear against its hive.
- 4. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem¡¯s room and feel the walls for a light switch.
- 5. I want them to water-ski across the surface of a poem waving at the author¡¯s name on the shore.
- 6. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. Billy Collins