billy collins "introduction to poetry"?

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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.


i don't understand the poem at all..i have to write an essay about it..and answer these questions in the essay:what does the speaker say that people do to poetry?how does the speaker in "introduction to poetry"want people to read poetry?how do you feel people should read poetry

i really hate poems..please explain this to me
 
Step back and taste the words.

Find the rock and roll in the words.

Look for the beautiful girl in the words.

Scratch until you find the itch in the words.

Fall in love with poems.
 
I think Tickle me elbows answer was perfection. I might have to steal it someday( kidding)
You see-- the poem is pointing out that people are trying to hard to analyze and find the "true" meanings of poems, instead of simply savoring and enjoying the emotions evoked when reading them.
It's a beautiful thing, no?
 
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