Introduction to poetry billy collins questions and answers

Point Loma Nazarene University Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry Discussion
Subject
Humanities

School
Point Loma Nazarene University

Question Description
Please respond to the following for each of the poems assigned this week:

Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46712/intro...

In one sentence, please explain what you believe is Collins' intention with this poem. Then, explain in 3-4 sentences how he uses hyperbole, personification, and metaphor.

For Neruda’s “Poetry” http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/neruda.html

The first line of the poem, translated, is "And it was at that age...poetry arrived"

Substitute something in your life that changed your perspective, your life, your goals, your friendships, your relationships, and then follow it through the rest of the poem. In 2-3 sentences, please indicate what you substituted and how it has shaped you into you are today.

For Bishop’s “One Art” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-a...

There is a progression from the beginning of the poem to the end, in terms of what Bishop has lost. Similar to "The Things They Carried," please write in 3-4 sentences, why this progression is organic for the underlying themes of this poem. Please quote directly from the poem. Why, in a repetitive form of villanelle, is Bishop encouraging her audience to lose things, people, places, on purpose?

For Cummings’ “In Just”https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47247/in-ju...

Please use the poetic terms from the PowerPoint, and isolate and identify alliteration, assonance, and consonance. You can put this in list form.

powerpoint:

Slide 1: •Poetry is multidimensional.It is directed at the whole person, as it involves four dimensions.

•Intellectual
•Imaginative
•Emotional
•Sensual
Slide 2:

•An APOSTROPHY is a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something non-human is addressed as if it were alive and present or could reply.
•A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth is a HYPERBOLE.
•ASIMILE is a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, than, as.
•A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike is a METAPHOR.