1. Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins

2. I want teach readers how to read a poem.
they need to enjoy the poem besides understand it.
Billy Collins

3. “Take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide “
Billy Collins

4. Hold the poem under
The light .

5. “ Press an ear against its hive ”
To listen carefully

6. “ I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out “

7. Look for meaning and a way to understand

8. Enjoy the poem ! “ I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem “
Enjoy the poem !

9. “ Waving at the author’s name on the shore “

10. Tell me the message of the poem !!
“ But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it “

11. “ They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means “
Readers looking for the message of poem.