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I totally agree with what you're saying. People should enjoy poetry but also find it a mystery. Great job : )
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I think the persona is saying that you can find the meaning of a poem only if you understand it and find your way through it.You wont understand it if you don't read and want a direct answer

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I think that the persona is saying that you can just find the meaning on your own because every poems meaning depends on the reader and you don't need to beat up the poem to find out the meaning because the meaning of the poem can change depending on your mindset.

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I think that the persona, Billy Collins, was talking about poetry as something that can't be morphed into something we want. We WANT to be able to understand it. We WANT to be able to make it something we can grasp without having to try and think the way the poet is thinking. Billy Collins wants to be able to show us how to read a poem without strangling and confining it. Poetry needs to be able to have space to go whichever way it's going. We have to be able to explore without a fixed mindset of how a poem needs to be like. I agree with what Billy Collins a say. I don't think that we should be confining a poem. We should have an open-mind.

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I think that Billy Collins was trying to explain to us that poetry can speak for itself. He is trying to show us that when reading poetry you really aren't going to get a straightforward answer. I think that the biggest takeaway would really be that there is no one way to read poetry. Poetry is almost like a painting in words, I think that there are different ways to take in or  different ways to interpret a poem. A poem usually moves the reader, but they connect it to their own personal lives which means that everyone will take in the poem in their own way.

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After reading The Introduction to Poetry, I realized that poetry has no one right meaning, each person who reads it will always have their own understanding that won't necessarily be the same as the author or another reader. The persona explains that many people try so hard to uncover the meaning of the poem that they forget to have their own opinion or perspective. I agree with the persona because there are many people who forget to have their own opinions or perspective that they always try to find the right answers when there isn't one.

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I think that the persona is trying to tell people/the audience how he thinks or wants people to read it. He wants them to enjoy it, find their own way and understand it the way the can and get their own different meaning out of it instead of people trying "torture" the poem by asking it for a straight forward answer without going through the questions and thinking themselves. I think that he's trying to say that poetry has it's own different meanings for each different person and doesn't have a single definitive answer.

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My takeaway based on this recent discussion is that poetry is a mystery, and you need to find your way through and break it down to fully understand the meaning of the poem, and to have fun while reading it.

The persona is trying to say that poetry is a maze or a dark room that you have to find your way out. I agree with it because poetry is a mystery and you have to go around it or go through it multiple times to get the true meaning.

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I think when Billy Collins was writing the "Introduction of Poetry" because he wanted to show the audience/ viewers the basics of poetry in a poem and he wrote very figuratively to show the audience that poetry is different and very fun and easy to make. Also he is telling his audience that audience to enjoy poetry and it can be whatever you want it to be.

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The Poem is trying to tell us that we have to see what the poem is trying to tell us and you have to take in what it’s trying say and you can’t understand it then you can’t force it out. the poet wants you too have fun with the poem, relate to it, and understand it.

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Poetry is very confusing. It can mean several different things. From the 2nd to the 6th line I think I know what it means for me. The 2nd line instructs teachers do drop mouses (students) into a maze which I believe is there feelings. On the 3rd line  look for the light switch. On the 4th line the poets thanks the teacher for letting him/her come out of their shell. On the 5th - 6th line their audience start torturing the poem to figure out what it really means. Although in reality, poetry is different for everyone. It just matters on where you see it from.

I do agree with him. I'm not experience in poetry but I believe things like this could happen.

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My takeaway from this poem is that the majority of people that read poetry want to know what it means straight ahead. Instead of feeling your way around and enjoying the poem, they dismantle the poem just to know what it means. I agree with the poem because I feel as if it is the first instinct of the audience to know what it means instead of enjoy it.

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I believe the persona is trying to say that you don't need to beet the poem to understand what the meaning is because depending on who you are the poem will always change to your state of mind and you will reflect on it the way that you reflect on it.