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    can memories lead? How do these all affect someone in the long run? The poem “Schoolsville” does a great job of representing life itself. It points towards life in general and explains the comical‚ serious and memorable‚ then poignant parts of life. Laughter is something that pleases the mind. Throughout our entire lives‚ we search for things that make us feel‚ even for the slightest amount of time‚ happy. Billy Collins writes‚ “Chalk dust flurrying down in winter‚ / nights dark as a blackboard”

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    Billy Collins

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    Billy Collins once said‚ “Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.” Collins truly sends his readers to new places with his poems. Billy Collins writes with childhood‚ and memories as his main themes. By writing about childhood‚ and memories from the past Collins brings his reader into the poem. Everyone reading his poems has had a childhood‚ and has memories of that childhood

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    Billy Collins Billy Collins was born on March 22‚ 1941 in New York‚ NY and is married to Diane Collins. He is the son of Katherine M. Collins and William S. Collins. Collins received a Bachelors Degree at the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and also received a Ph.D. in romantic poetry in 1971. He has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and also was a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He is an English Professor at Lehman College for CUNY‚ where he has been teaching

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    Nick McNeil Professor Moore ENC1102 28 Feb. 2013 Laughs for Realization There are many famous poets out there but “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times‚ states that Billy Collins carries that position. Collins is famous for conversational‚ witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky‚ tender or profound observation on the everyday‚ reading and writing‚ and poetry itself. He has such a wonderful way of writing his poetry to appeal to any

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    Embrace by Billy Collins

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    “Embrace” By Billy Collins The most effective way for a poem to speak to the reader is by using a way of indirectly representing an image or an event. When the poet uses a filter‚ or a metaphor‚ he makes a figurative instead of a literal reference. Taking a look at Billy Collins’ poem‚ “Embrace” it is easy to think that the whole message from beginning to end is that this person was feeling lonely enough to hold himself. He is a little over the edge‚ and since there is no one around to embrace

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    “Consolation‚” Billy Collins attempts to comfort himself after not being able to visit Italy in the following summer. He creates a “consolation” for himself by listing all of the downsides to travelling to another country so filled with history and culture. However‚ his tone makes it seem as though he is unsuccessful at convincing himself that staying at home is actually a good thing. The reader can tell that he is actually disconsolate‚ that his efforts were in vain. Collins begins his poem

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    Response to Schoolsville

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    Response to Schoolsville My first thoughts after reading Schoolsville‚ by Billy Collins‚ as a whole‚ were of the movie {proof}. {proof} is about a mathematician who‚ as he grew older‚ slowly lost his mind. After reading the first few stanzas I thought either the person in the poem is Schizophrenic or simply reminiscing. However‚ when I came upon the second to last stanza‚ I understood the story. The second to last stanza reads; Needless to say‚ I am the mayor. I live in the white colonial

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    Billy Collins William James “BillyCollins was born in March 22‚ 1941 in New York City to William and Katherine Collins. Katherine Collins was a nurse who sparked Billy’s interest in words and poetry. His mother was able to recite on most subjects. In 1963‚ he received his B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross and his Masters’ and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California‚ Riverside. Collins joined the faculty of Lehman College in 1968 and has been teaching for over thirty

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    06-08-2012 English 102 Paper 1 Billy Collins has described analyzing poetry in a very pleasurable and unique way. In “Introduction to Poetry” by Author Billy Collins‚ the major theme brought out is that‚ poetry is something to be experienced. In addition‚ the identifiable speaker in this poem is Billy Collins “the teacher”; which seems very well educated in writing and analyzing poetry. This poem is written in stanza form with no regular rhyming scheme. Author Billy Collins informs his readers to read

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    Add school counselor to the list of people you can turn to when you need help. They know how to listen and can help kids with life challenges. Counselors have special training in how to help kids solve problems‚ make decisions‚ and stand up for themselves. You feel like you need to talk to someone about everything that’s going on. A great person to share your thoughts and feelings with is your school counselor. In addition to help kids with problems guidance counselors help kids learn about study

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