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Page 1: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

Introduction to Poetry

by Billy Collins

Page 2: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

I want teach readers how to read a poem.they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it.

Billy Collins

Page 3: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

“Take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide “

Billy Collins

Page 4: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

Hold the poem underThe light .

Page 5: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

“ Press an ear against its hive ”

To listen carefully

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Page 6: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

“ I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out

Page 7: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

Look for meaning and a way to understand

Page 8: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

“ I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem “

Page 9: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

“ Waving at the author’s name on the shore “

Page 10: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

Tell me the message of the poem !!

Poem

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

Page 11: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins I want teach readers how to read a poem. they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it. Billy Collins

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

Readers looking for the message of poem.