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d over again to be enjoyed every time it's read. I agree with the persona. Poems are meant to be enjoyed or to feel kilig, not to torture yourself until you completely understand the meaning.
 
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Mika's Thoughts

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What is the persona trying to say about poetry? Do you agree or disagree with it? Why?

(Pls ignore the other response)

I think that the poem is trying to, in the form of a poem, demonstrate the incorrect common methods of understanding and interpreting poems. The author poetically describes his frustration towards impatient readers who read poetry and demand to be given a definitive answer as to what it means.

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What is the persona trying to say about poetry? Do you agree or disagree with it? Why?

I think that the poem is trying to, in the form of a poem, demonstrate the often incorrect methods of understanding and interpreting poems. This

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I think that the persona is trying to say that We are not supposed to fund out what petty is and what the theme is

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I think that the persona is trying to say that Poetry  is supposed to be hard to interpret and understand. To fully understand poems we must fully examine the poem, understand it and have fun with it. You need to put yourself into the shoes of the persona. For the 5th and 6th stanza the poet is trying to say that you should not be lazy in trying to find the meaning of the poem meaning don't just read the poem and assume the meaning right away. The poet is also saying that there is no right or wrong answer for what a poem means

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I think that stanzas five and six are trying to say that even if you think that the author is being confusing about his poem, you have to use what you have to determine and discern what the meaning is.

I think the persona is trying to say the  poetry is something that you need to find out on your own. It is also something you are meant to have fun with.

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What do stanzas 5 and 6 say, both literally and figuratively?

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

they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

I think that this whole poem including these two stanza's

What is the persona trying to say about poetry? Do you agree or disagree with it? Why?

I think that the author of the poem is trying to say that you need to listen, feel, have fun with, and get lost in it. Don't skip to the end of a book to find the ending, don't try to translate the poem in order to find the meaning. You need to make your own connection and understand it in your own way. I agree with what he is saying because everybody needs to connect to a poem and find out for themselves how it plays a part in their life.

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Like what we had talked about earlier. This poem is basically a set of instructions a teacher would give a student, but instead of following it they start doing the opposite because they are lazy, but they don't even realize that they are robbing themselves of the challenge to find out the answer.

Stanza 5 and 6, this talks about tying the poem to a chair with a rope and beating it with a hose. Figuratively, I think they are talking about some readers/students that try and force the answer out of "it." (e.g. Cheating and Giving away the answer.)

I think what the persona is trying to say about poems are that there are 2 ways of taking it in. 1. You could either enjoy it and give it a chance or, 2. you could just cheat and rob yourself of the answers. I think I totally agree and understand where the persona is coming from. And that people like us, don't always understand things the way we do, based on our opinions.

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I think that the persona is trying to say that poetry is something you are meant to enjoy, and have fun with. You need to see poetry through your own eyes, and find your own meaning. But the persona says that people want to understand it, but they are looking at it the wrong way, because they are not looking for their meaning, but the authors ~meaning~. I agree with the persona of the poem, and I agree with everybody on the meanings of the stanzas. I agree with the persona because in poetry, everybody has their own meaning, so there is no such thing as a "right" meaning. Poetry doesn't really have a true meaning, it all depends on you.

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What do stanzas 5 and 6 say, both literally and figuratively?

I think that stanzas 5 and 6 mean that your trying to figure out what the poem really means and your trying to understand where the person is coming from but in the end you give up and you just ask the person what it really means and you are robbing yourself from understanding what it really means.

What is the persona trying to say about poetry? Do you agree or disagree with it? Why?

The persona is trying to say that when you write a poem your suppose to understand yourself and not just cheat and ask people how do you feel about me. For the audience its like saying your suppose to figure out what you think it means and not what the author wants you to think because everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

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What is the persona trying to say about poetry? Do you agree or disagree with it? Why?

The persona is trying to say that you should enjoy poems but also find it a mystery, connect to it in your own way, and think of it as an adventure/ story that comes to life.

In other words the persona thinks that you should find the beauty in poems. I agree , but you shouldn't just find the beauty in poems but in other forms of writing as well.

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I personally agree with the poem because Poetry is beautiful and so touching, and people do not really agree with it, which makes me sad.

(Weeelll thats unfortunate. T_T) Stanza's 5 and 6 means that some people do not appreciate poetry in a way they take things too literally, and some people feel their poems are not what they are.
In my opinion, people who think that poems are literal are students, teachers, and other people.

"Devour a poem like candy" "Poem is candy, sweet and amazing."

As much as you dive in a book, dive deeper into a poem.

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I think that the audience are
the readers of the poem. I think stanza 5 means that they are keeping the poem on a chair and trying to get the meaning out of it without reading it. I think it means that they are just asking what the meaning of the poem is and they are not making their own understanding of the poem. I think stanza 6 means that they are getting a hose and washing the poem to see it clearer.

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What do Stanzas 5 and 6 say, both figuratively and literally?I think, what the author is trying to say in stanzas 5&6 is that they just want to know the meaning, they don't want to understand it them selves. They want to make the poem say it them selves. They don't want to make their own meaning.

Do you agree or disagree with the poem/author? Why?
I agree with the author because, poetry can become very confusing, sometimes, you just give up and you just want to know the meaning from it instantly. Poems are supposed to make you feel different feelings, depending on what you want the others to feel. Its suppose to move you, since you were supposed to read it your self.

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I think that the persona is trying to say that writers and people who enjoy poetry want readers to enjoy poems. They want them to be able to relate and find their own meaning to the poem. But some people are ignorant to the poems and just read it as a bunch of words and not a way someone expresses themselves. Others demand a meaning of the poem without even trying to find out of the poem themselves. I agree with the message/meaning of the poem (or that's how I interpret the poem) because not everyone is the same and people have their own opinions on poetry. Others can take the opportunity to enjoy poems, find their own meaning to the poems, and to figure out how the writer is feeling. While others can choose to be ignorant and lazy towards poetry and not enjoy the work of others.r

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I think the persona is trying to say that poems are not supposed to be read over and over again till the meaning is understood and found. They're supposed to be read over and over again to be enjoyed every time it's read. I agree with the persona. Poems are meant to be enjoyed or to feel kilig, not to torture yourself until you completely understand the meaning.

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What do Stanzas 5 and 6 say both literally and figuratively? Literally, the 5th and 6th Stanzas say that new comers to poetry, when they come across a poem that is confusing, they don't have fun, they try to force the answer out of the poem/the author. What is the persona trying to say about poetry? Do you agree or disagree with it? Why? I think the persona/author/Billy Collins is trying to say that poetry is suppose to be fun, exciting, and enjoyable, and you should try to make your own poem. Although it should be fun, but most people don't. I agree with this because the first time I read poetry and tried to translate it, I though of it as hard instead of fun and exciting.