My first thought on this poem is that I liked it a lot. The flow of the poem was done really well and also makes the poem more understandable. The poem has awesome imagery and you can really feel what the author is trying to portray through his poetry. I believe that the Billy is trying to say that many people need to stop over analyzing poetry, stop trying to always derive a meaning from the words. Billy wants us to just enjoy the words, feel them, and just love the way poetry feels and sounds. I also think that each stanza could be maybe a different point of view of poetry from different poeple. These are the poeple that don't over analyze the poetry and just feel the poetry. Billy says to enjoy poetry, because when you start analyzing the poetry loses value. I think he is trying to say that maybe poets don't write for people to analyze the poem, they write for the enjoyment. This is how poets probably want people to view their poem through enjoyment, not over analyzation.
I really enjoyed this poem and I think that it is a little ironic that I am analyzing a poem that says not to analyze poetry.
How can the flow be done "really well"? What exactly do you mean? Was it smooth? Choppy? Musical? Be specific. :) Otherwise, a nice look at what Collins is saying.
ReplyDelete"I really enjoyed this poem and I think that it is a little ironic that I am analyzing a poem that says not to analyze poetry."
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing. :) I think it's funny looking back at the poem that we started our year off from. And I totally agree that poets write poetry for people's enjoyment and not to just have them worrying about how to interpret it. Very nice, Jessica! :)