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Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => English => Topic started by: irina on June 27, 2015, 09:59:02 AM

Title: Introduction to Poetry
Post by: irina on June 27, 2015, 09:59:02 AM

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

Title: Re: Introduction to Poetry
Post by: Afroza Akhter Tina on June 27, 2015, 02:57:30 PM

...unusual & interesting poem  :)




Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

Title: Re: Introduction to Poetry
Post by: Md. Nuruzzaman Moral on June 29, 2015, 01:31:54 PM

inspiring indeed.

Title: Re: Introduction to Poetry
Post by: Shahriar Mohammad Kamal on June 29, 2015, 02:52:23 PM

Witty poem.

Title: Re: Introduction to Poetry
Post by: Subrata.eng on June 30, 2015, 09:45:16 AM

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

Title: Re: Introduction to Poetry
Post by: Afroza Akhter Tina on June 30, 2015, 11:37:24 AM

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




Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU