Introduction to Poetry

This poem is all about imagery. Every stanza has a different image given to the interpreter of how it feels to try reading a poem. Honestly, I think every reader experiences some puzzling, inquisitive feeling when reading a poem for the first time and this poem pretty much puts this into images. This poem uses similes to give the reader a feeling about poetry such as "hold it up to the light like a color slide." Collin talks about how he wants readers to probe through a poem just like a mouse in a maze and find the light switch in a poem's room, but instead people try to tie the poem to a chair and torture confession out of it. His point of view he's trying to get across is that people need to have patience and time when trying to figure out a poem and see the art and masterpiece behind the work, not merely just to read and find out what the poem is truly trying to say. The reader needs to enjoy the poem for what it is before just trying to get the job done and find the meaning. This piece teaches a lesson that poem is a type of art that needs to be enjoyed.