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"Rarely has anyone written poems that appear so transparent on the surface yet become so ambiguous, thought-provoking, or simply wise once the reader has peered into the depths."

The argument presented in the article correctly conveys the messages and deeper more conveyed meanings behind his works, and even when they incorporate modernistic approaches to life in a poetic motive, and as shown in "Days", while the exterior of the poem is of the modern citizen waking up for the busy day, it becomes individual moments "perched on the top of a tall ladder hoping to add one more. Just another Wednesday" (Collins 18-20), where a deeper meaning of the meaning and value of our day is put into greater context.

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“His poems begin well and then spiral down into unsurprising images.”

This criticism is false because of Collins’ use of many different poetic devices (which are used to keep the audience intrigued) throughout his works in addition to imagery. This is evident in Collins’ poem “Days,” where he uses a simile to compare all the “days of the past stacked high” to an “impossible tower of dishes entertainers used to build on stage” in the later half of the poem (lines 14-16). This combination of both simile and imagery help to keep the audience thinking about the poem, proving that Collins’ works do not spiral down into just unsurprising images.

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Collins was born an only child in New York City, New York in 1941. But later moves to Westchester County when his father became an insurance broker on Wall Street.  He began writing at the very young age of 10. After becoming interested in writing, he received a B.A. for the College of the Holy Cross in 1963. Six years later, he became assistant professor of English at Lehman College of the CIty University of New York. In 1971, he received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside,  in romantic poetry. In the 1970's His poems began to appear in Rolling Stone. A couple years later in 1979, he became a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College. He accumulated many awards throughout his career, including: the Bess Hoken award, The Oscar Blumenthal award, and the Levinson Prize. In addition to being recognized by the New York Foundation of the Arts, and the New York Public Library recognized him as a literary Lion. In 2001 he became the 11th poet laureate, and was elected again in 2002. As the poet laureate, he created poetry 180 which was designed for high school students to understand poetry.

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Billy Collins was a part of the Working class movement, he wrote about everyday events that the common working class experienced, he didn’t relate to rich people who didn’t experience these issues and focused on working class people. Such examples is his poem Days in which he presents the dilemma of the morning for people without much to look forward to, the working class, having a long day of work ahead. Another example is his poem why I don’t keep a gun in the house where he explicates the terrors of close living, and how working class generation has to put up with their neighbors.