Aristotle By Billy Collins Analysis
Presumably, the poem “Aristotle” is an adaptation to Aristotle's conceptions on tragedies, in which a tragedy must contain a beginning, middle, and end. Throughout the poem there are unequivocal transitions telling the audience the when the beginning, middle, and end have arrived. Furthermore, the tile may also allude to the way the poem will be written. Since Aristotle was a well renowned philosopher, the poem may contain reflections upon certain actions, that lead to misfortunes found in tragedies. However, I also find the poem’s title, although being appropriate for the piece, to be partially ironic. This is due to the concept that poetry has no determined ending whereas, according to Aristotle, tragedies do have closure for the audience.
The poem’s form is written according to the way Aristotle proposes how tragedies should be written, with a “beginning, middle, and an end”. Additionally, the inevitable theme within the poem “Artisitole” can be that since there is an end within tragedy, we are all living one continuous tragedy. I mean, we are all born to die. Time will not rest for us, and we will eventually experience death, as depressing as …show more content…
Within the final stanza of the poem, Collins makes several allusions to the inevitable end of several things, such as rivers, roads, parades. It’s basically the poet describing the impending death, or end, off all things, much like a tragedies inescapable end. Additionally, the speaker also alludes to the idea that we can not escape “imagining” the idea of an end. As shown in lines 67 and 68, the end is something “we have all been waiting for”, something that “everything comes down to”. Furthermore, the idea of an endless time is also present within the poem. A river, although becomes part of an ocean at the end of its stream, will always continuously flow as a river into the ocean. Much like how time surpasses the dead and continually goes on without
The poem’s form is written according to the way Aristotle proposes how tragedies should be written, with a “beginning, middle, and an end”. Additionally, the inevitable theme within the poem “Artisitole” can be that since there is an end within tragedy, we are all living one continuous tragedy. I mean, we are all born to die. Time will not rest for us, and we will eventually experience death, as depressing as …show more content…
Within the final stanza of the poem, Collins makes several allusions to the inevitable end of several things, such as rivers, roads, parades. It’s basically the poet describing the impending death, or end, off all things, much like a tragedies inescapable end. Additionally, the speaker also alludes to the idea that we can not escape “imagining” the idea of an end. As shown in lines 67 and 68, the end is something “we have all been waiting for”, something that “everything comes down to”. Furthermore, the idea of an endless time is also present within the poem. A river, although becomes part of an ocean at the end of its stream, will always continuously flow as a river into the ocean. Much like how time surpasses the dead and continually goes on without