On the words in poetry

     In the poem on the words in Poetry, the author Dylan Thomas, professes his love of words in a poem.  He loves the rhymes,symbolism,and nursery rhymes. He is very descriptive in his perspective of poetry, for example, he stated," the first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone." He shows the passion of the words that were felt in the first poem he read and love what the words stood for.  I agree with the author because poems have a way of establishing emotion and creativity. My first poem was from the Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Hams, as a kindergarten student I was impressed  of the rhymes, creativity, and descriptive imagery Dr Seuss used.   Words used in poems should be treated like a painter to art. 

Billy Collins

          In the introduction to poetry is simply about Billy Collins putting his thoughts on how a poem should be read.  I think he is giving the reader instruction about how to approach poems, not simply stating that analysis is beating the poem. He invites  the joy that poetry brings us but there is a tonal shift, which warns the reader not to over analyse.The poem states that poems are living things, that they are alive. Collins uses personification, metaphors, and similes to prove his point.  Collins wants students to fully immerse themselves within a poem and enjoy it as well as discovering what its deeper meaning is. Students should try to find the meaning themselves rather than trying to get the poem to tell them what it means.