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Unseen Poetry Mat - Billy Collins - Introduction To Poetry

Collins uses imaginative metaphors to encourage students to actively engage with poems in novel ways, such as viewing them with a microscope, walking inside their rooms, or waterskiing across their surfaces. However, the students instead want to tie poems to chairs and torture them to extract their true meanings, beating them with hoses in search of answers.

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Unseen Poetry Mat - Billy Collins - Introduction To Poetry

Collins uses imaginative metaphors to encourage students to actively engage with poems in novel ways, such as viewing them with a microscope, walking inside their rooms, or waterskiing across their surfaces. However, the students instead want to tie poems to chairs and torture them to extract their true meanings, beating them with hoses in search of answers.

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Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a colour 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 poems room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the authors 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. Billy Collins

Hitting the Criteria (Band 5/6)


3 Evaluation of writers uses of language/structure plus effects on readers

Structure
Narrative, layout, stanza, first/last line, inset words, words sticking out, (ir)regular lines, line lengths, punctuation, refrain, fixed form

Language Techniques
Imagery, metaphor, simile, personification, repetition, emotive, rhetoric, hyperbole, humour, alliteration, assonance, sibilance

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