Introduction to Poetry – Post Reading
In Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins, the poet, is saying that students and teachers should learn and teach poetry in a way they can both enjoy and experience the way to the understanding of the poem. He wants the teachers and the students explore the true meaning of the poem and not teach it by the book, he wants the teachers and the students to understand it on their own way.
I support Billy Collins' way of teaching poetry.
The way that students and teachers make towards understanding the meaning of the .poem is the most important part in poetry and in many aspects of life
They change their way of thinking so they can understand the poem and as a result they open their minds and think more creative.
Moreover, I think that in order to understand the meaning of the poem each student and teacher should make their own interpretation of the poem, in that way they can gain the best from the poem. I think that when poetry is taught students learn the teacher's interpretation of the poem.
The teacher is trying to make poetry easier for the students but actually he hurts the students by not letting them express their own feelings and their own thoughts about the poem.
The teacher is trying to make poetry easier for the students but actually he hurts the students by not letting them express their own feelings and their own thoughts about the poem.
To sum up, I think that each student needs to learn poetry on his own way and that he needs to find the clues or the words that he can relate so he could understand and interpretate the song by himself. Teachers need to be more open with the different opinions from the students towards a poem they teach them. If teachers want the students to open their minds and to be more creative in poetry, they need to let the students express their feelings and thoughts.
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This is much better, but still needs work.
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Daphna
