After reading "Introduction to Poetry" I feel like Billy Collins portrayed how one can experience poetry yet "solve" poetry simultaneously. Collins uses some metaphors to draw on the senses of the reader and poet-student. Collins encourages ways of understanding a poem by holding it to light (like a color slide), listening to it intently (ear to hive), an various metaphors for creating space in a poem. Somehow the poem is a space where a mouse can be dropped in and you could feel your way around, but it happens to be some space that is tied to chairs and beaten with hoses.
The metaphors throughout the poem lean towards this idea that when teaching poetry, students are encouraged to 'experience' the poem, but there is a "confession" they're trying to beat out of the poem. There is a "what it really means" that is to be identified, so this contradictory teaching approach remains contradictory.
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