The poem "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins, captivates the reader in the context that the reader themself becomes the character within the poem. There are many metaphores that send the reader off on an imaginary and sense filled expeirence, but abruptly becomes a poem of deeper mis conception. The Title alone "Introduction to poetry" is ironic in that introductions to anything are basic and easy understand when in fact the poem is very complex. Another form of verbal irony would be that the author intends for "them" to take the poem easily for what it was and to simply enjoy the poem with all of it's imagry and yet they wind up trying to "tie the poem to a chair and torture a confession out of it". A paradox is instilled when the poem comes full circle. The reader realizes that "them" ment you, I, or us. As we generally see the poem as something with a purpose or meaing, so we go stanza by stanza trying to rip it a part instead of just enjoying the poem for what it is.
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