Review Of Billy Collins 'Poem Adage'
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Dr. Liz Ann Baez Anguilar
ENGL 1302.012
1st October 2015
Billy Collins’s poem
Billy Collins. "Adage" Poets & Writers 36.5 (2008): 29. Print.
Billy Collins. “Aimless Love” Poetry 179.5 (2002): 251. Print.
Billy Collins is well known for his contribution to modern American literature, especially with his “middle class” poem. He has won a significant amount of awards. His name also appeared in several well know journal, magazine such as the New Yorker, American Scholar, and the Paris review. He is also recognized as one of the most popular poets in the current American literature. He used simple English and daily routine or common events to transparence his idea to his poem and make them memorable. I have read several Billy Collins’ poem and seen myself and everybody else in his poem. …show more content…
Collins showed us what he thought about love. He gave us an idea what love might be and lead us to the explanation what does it really mean is love. In the intro, according to Collins “you might think that love is… a matter of leaping out of the frying pan of yourself and into the fire of someone else,” (3-5) he gave us an idea that we might think that we just need to throw yourself into someone and let them make us excited and in love with that person. He showed us what we thought. Love between people comes naturally without any force. “A wise man once said that love was like forcing a horse to drink but then everyone stopped thinking him of wise” (9-12). Hence, no one agree with the wise man any more for his statement. No one agree that love was forced by anyone or anything. If love was forced, it would not be love any more. Love is beyond ages, races, distances,
Dr. Liz Ann Baez Anguilar
ENGL 1302.012
1st October 2015
Billy Collins’s poem
Billy Collins. "Adage" Poets & Writers 36.5 (2008): 29. Print.
Billy Collins. “Aimless Love” Poetry 179.5 (2002): 251. Print.
Billy Collins is well known for his contribution to modern American literature, especially with his “middle class” poem. He has won a significant amount of awards. His name also appeared in several well know journal, magazine such as the New Yorker, American Scholar, and the Paris review. He is also recognized as one of the most popular poets in the current American literature. He used simple English and daily routine or common events to transparence his idea to his poem and make them memorable. I have read several Billy Collins’ poem and seen myself and everybody else in his poem. …show more content…
Collins showed us what he thought about love. He gave us an idea what love might be and lead us to the explanation what does it really mean is love. In the intro, according to Collins “you might think that love is… a matter of leaping out of the frying pan of yourself and into the fire of someone else,” (3-5) he gave us an idea that we might think that we just need to throw yourself into someone and let them make us excited and in love with that person. He showed us what we thought. Love between people comes naturally without any force. “A wise man once said that love was like forcing a horse to drink but then everyone stopped thinking him of wise” (9-12). Hence, no one agree with the wise man any more for his statement. No one agree that love was forced by anyone or anything. If love was forced, it would not be love any more. Love is beyond ages, races, distances,