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I think Collins uses objects that appeal to the senses such as painting, music, a trumpet, television, celery salt, and bloody mary as analogies to help explain his idea of how a should find motivation to create a poem. I think that the imagery used by Collins doesn’t work well for the poem because some readers may not be familiar with poems and how the analogies used by Collins are applied to his poem.
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