Introduction to Poetry

[irina]

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem   
and hold it up to the light   
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem   
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room   
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski   
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope   
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose   
to find out what it really means.

The poet is   
Billy Collins

[Afroza Akhter Tina]

...unusual & interesting poem 




Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

[Md. Nuruzzaman Moral]

inspiring indeed.

[Shahriar Mohammad Kamal]

Witty poem.

[Subrata.eng]

We are free to interpret a piece of poem as we like.

[Afroza Akhter Tina]

The field is always open indeed...we have our own ways to interpret things 




Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU