Chasing the Real Meaning
Poetry is an art of communicative language with a long history and has developed since the ancient Greek period. Poetry’s sentences are simple but powerful, a combination that requires people to associate the text with their own life experiences, thoughts, and emotions; the poem is usually a symbolic vessel that needs to be unraveled to get to the essence of the poem. In the poem “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, Collins uses his terseness in language to teach people how to read poetry. Collins emphasizes that reading poetry needs to fill people with a sense of imagination and interconnection to their own lives in order to grasp the poet’s overall image and appreciate the mood. In other words, Collins illustrates…show more content… “But all they want to do/ is tie the poem to a chair with rope…they begin beating it with a hose/ to find out what it really means” (12-16). Collins using personification to point out that most people stop their step to look forward the mood of the poem, but pare chrysalis reel off raw silk from cocoons to find out the author’s ideas. He indicates that many people misunderstanding of understanding poem, the really meaning of the poem they struggling with is actually not the “really means” they need. Also, he claims that understanding poem is not only needs people associate with the history and experience of the poem showing to understand the author’s feelings and catch the author’s ideas, but also needs people to being in touch and thinking beyond with better understand the state of poems. Compared with harshly elaborate the “really means”, Collins propounds that people should good at using imagination to think out the box in order to move into next level of the understanding of poem.
Poetry is a form of literary which full of feelings and imagination, mostly and centrally reflects the social life, and imagery is a very important concept in poetry. Also, poetry does not usually throughout the abstract feelings of author in directly as a language art, but needs expressing with the help of imagery. In the poem, “Introduction to Poetry”, Collins using metaphor and personification to tell people that it is very important to fully using of imagination to appreciate and analyze the poetry in order to better understand the mood of the
