How To Read Poetry: Reading, Summary, and Analysis of "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

Welcome to a reading, summary, and analysis of "Introduction to Poetry" by two time US Poet Laurette, Billy Collins.

In this poem, Collins examines the beautiful world of poetry, and how it all too often turns nightmarish in the classroom. We'll look at why this is, and explore ways that teachers and students can better enjoy reading 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.

-1988