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Introduction to Poetry

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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   :D
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.

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