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I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room

and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose

to find out what it really means.

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You will need patience to understand the poem.

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We must enjoy the process of interpretating a poem.

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We must read the whole poem and understand the deeper meaning of the poem.

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We will need to learn how to interpret and understand the meaning behind the poetry to learn it well.

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Resilience and

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I think we need some creativity to learn poetry well.

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I think one of the Qualities needed in order to learn poetry well is being patient and analysing each word in the poem carefully.

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We must be calm and be able to enjoy the process of finding the poem's meaning.

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need to have good skills about poetry ig

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need to have good skills about poetry ig

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you need to be creative and think of phrases.

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how is life

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This can be seen in "walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch".

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This can be seen in 'walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch'.

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We need to be calm when learning poetry.

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We need patience in order to learn poetry well.

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You will need patience and be able to interpret the poem

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You will need patience and be able to interpret the poem

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"But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose

to find out what it really means."

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"all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope" and "torture a confession out of it"

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This can be seen from 'drop a mouse into a poem' and 'feel the walls for a light switch'.

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annotation skills and find out striking details

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This can be seen in the whole poem

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From the quoted phrase, that shows that we need patience to read and find the meaning of the poem.

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This is seen in "waterski across the surface of a poem" and "waving at the author's name"

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You will need patience and be able to interpret the poem

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We need to spend time to digest the poem using patience.

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We need patience,calmness and trusting our gut to understand the poem.

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This can be seen in "But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope"

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From the phrases stated, the mouse that was dropped into the poem is stuck inside the poem and is struggling to come out. The mouse has to be calm and find his way out slowly. 'Felt the walls for a light switch' suggests that someone is in a dark room and is finding for a switch to get himself out of the room. The person has to be calm and find his way out carefully.

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Patience is important in reading a poem. Read the poem attentively and slowly, you will sure find out what it really means

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"Waterski" refers to entertainment as waterski is a sport that is mostly welcomed and loved by many. Hence, I could infer that we must read a poem in an entertaining, enjoyable way, just like how people enjoy waterskiing. The action "waving" also refers to enjoyment as we wave at someone when we feel relaxed and happy. Hence I could infer that instead of reading a poem in a serious manner, we should read a poem in a more relaxed way.

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why do they need to "press your against its hive'

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The words 'feel the walls for a light switch' shows that we are in a dark room and we are trying to find our way out.This suggests that when we are in a dark room it is difficult to find your way out.Hence we must have patience so that we can get out of the room just like how we are supposed to be patient in order to find the true meaning behind the poem.

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This can be seen in "walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch."

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We are supposed to read the whole poem and not just skip to the end,trying to find out what the poem means.

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This can be seen in''But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.''

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This can be seen in the whole poem as at first glance, the poem can seem illogical but we need patience to read the poem many times in order to understand it.

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If we do not have any creativity , we will not understand what the writer is trying to say and will keep on reading the poem without understanding what is going on.

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This can be seen from "walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch."

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This phrase tells us that similar to how you would slowly feel the walls of a room for a light switch, we should not try to find the meaning of the poem as fast as we can. Rather we should read each line carefully and try to piece it together to get the meaning of the poem.

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Hence, it infers that they should use their ears to listen to the speaker .
It shows that the student was not listening to the teacher, they are not interested in poem. Therefore,I will red this in a helpless manner as the students does not pay attention.

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The phrase "tie the poem to a chair with rope" may mean that we should always focus on one sparza instead of the full poetry. This way, we will have a deeper understanding of the poetry.

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We will need patience and creativity.

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As the phrase"walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch"shows that you need calmness,patience and trusting your gut as in a dark room trying to find a light switch,you have to be calm and patience to feel for the light switch and you also have to trust your gut into thinking where is the light switch just like in learning poetry you have to be calm and patient to understand what the poem is saying,you also have to trust your gut into thinking that you have got the meaning of the poem.

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This can be seen in  "walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch."

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The author really explained it in one short creative sentence that can be portrayed very well. The phrase"feel the walls for the light switch" explains how the author wants the reader to get an idea like how the room gets lit up.

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I want to specify the word ''but'' in the sparza as this but means that Billy Collins wants them to carefully disect and digest it and not doing as stated. The word ''but'' states that they could have done things differently, and not just ''kidnapping''  the poem like that.
They needed to approach things differently, like being patient with the poem to understand it. ''Kidnapping'' the poem won't get you answers and won't help you get anywhere.

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this can be seen in ' or press an ear against its hive '

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This can be seen in the phrase "hold it up to the light like a colour slide" and "drop a mouse in the poem and watch him probe his way out"

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"hold it up to the light like a colour slide, or press an ear against its hive" is trying to tell us that we have to read the poem attentively and slowly, enjoy the moment with patience as it is the way you can understand the poem well

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We need patience to understand the poem and not rush through the poem.

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This can be seen from the phrase "or walk inside the poem's roomm and feel the walls for a light switch."

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From there, i can tell that somebody is stuck in a dark room and trying to find the light switch to slowly get out of the dark room. He has to have patience and not rush through his actions as he might not be able to find the light switch, instead, he has to be patient in finding the light switch and going out of the dark room.