{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"38460660","dateCreated":"1304413700","smartDate":"May 3, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"laurenmcbroom346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/laurenmcbroom346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38460660"},"dateDigested":1532128664,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Lauren McBroom","description":"I think this poem is about how a lot of people have difficulty understanding the true meaning of a poem. The author wishes to show the reader the poem's true colors, but the reader is looking at it the wrong way. A poem is meant to the felt; emotion plays a huge role in understanding a piece. The reader is being too literal.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38440312","dateCreated":"1304374023","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"NeelieKibler346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/NeelieKibler346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38440312"},"dateDigested":1532128664,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Neelie Kibler","description":"To me, this poem tries to show you that if all you want to get out of a poem is what it means and move on to the next one, you are not really going to enjoy it. If you dig down and take time to analyze it in all of its beauty, you will appreciate it more.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431600","dateCreated":"1304363801","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"anniebennett346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/anniebennett346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431600"},"dateDigested":1532128664,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"poem- annie","description":"The subject of this work is also a poem, but the writer defines a poem in a different way. The writer uses personification to compare a poem with a human or other living thing, to help express how poetry is not just a bunch of words written down on paper. The main focus of the poem is centered around the idea that poetry is supposed to be abstract and free, but that people don't always interpret it that way.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431602","dateCreated":"1304363801","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"katiejacobs346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/katiejacobs346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431602"},"dateDigested":1532128664,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Katie Jacobs","description":"I feel this poem gives a great description on the common outlook on poetry is dreadful, when in reality poetry should be easy and free. Poetry should give a person the ability to do whatever they choose within the text of the poem. In this poem the author refers to poetry as a mouse being able to waterski and having freedom. The author is referring to the idea that poetry always has this negative connotation amongst people but it is truly as special form of writing that allows a person to write and dream about whatever they choose. This poem exemplifies expresses poetry as an joyful and light type of writing but ends with the idea of writers block and being tied to a chair.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431596","dateCreated":"1304363796","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"kennanluther","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kennanluther","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431596"},"dateDigested":1532128664,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Kennan Luther","description":"I think the poem is about finding the meaning of a poem in a more abstract and meaningful way as opposed to beating the meaning out of it. In the traditional way of reading poems, the meaning is black and white. This poem suggests that you can only understand the poem by interpreting every part of it and discussing it.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431598","dateCreated":"1304363793","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sarahborne346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sarahborne346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431598"},"dateDigested":1532128664,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Poem by Billy Collins","description":"This poem illustrates the different ways poetry can be interpreted. Different types of people have different interpretations of poems. I like how this poem uses everyday tasks like waterskiing into poetry. It gives a direct comparison the analyzing poetry. This poem has a carefree tone. The author is describing how diverse poetry is, and how sometimes people try and force a meaning on the poem. Every person has a different view on a poem, no one can force the meaning of the poem. Collins uses this phrase as a literal and figurative meaning," But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it." He illustrates how people force a meaning on a poem, when actually you cannot tie a poem to a chair. I like the poet's interpretation of poetry.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431594","dateCreated":"1304363789","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nataliekessler346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nataliekessler346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431594"},"dateDigested":1532128664,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Natalie Kessler","description":"I think that the poem revealed exactly how most people feel about poetry. We want an exact explanation of what the poem means, and we want it to be easy to find. Instead, the author says we need to get to know the poem, in a sense, and explore all the different meanings it could be alluding to. It's not a quick process to analyze a story, and meanings are not always clear; however, that is where the true depth lies.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431574","dateCreated":"1304363777","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"susannahgleason346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/susannahgleason346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431574"},"dateDigested":1532128665,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Susannah Gleason","description":"This poem shows the complexity of poems and they are really beautiful things but most people do not like them. When given a poem in school to find the deeper meaning of, most people will look at the most obvious, not looking deeper into it. The teacher in this poem is trying to get them to look at it in different ways, when the students really don't want to try to understand it.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431570","dateCreated":"1304363772","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"arsemahabte346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/arsemahabte346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431570"},"dateDigested":1532128665,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Arsema Habte","description":"I thought this poem was talking about how people try to analyze a poem so much, that they end up losing the meaning in the process. I think the author of the poem wants us to instead enjoy the poem as opposed to looking for some type of hidden message that isn't there. The author wants us to hold a discussion with the poem.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"38431572","dateCreated":"1304363771","smartDate":"May 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"madeleinegibson346","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/madeleinegibson346","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/english-9-honors.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/38431572"},"dateDigested":1532128665,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Madeleine","description":"I think that this poem is saying that understanding, reading and analyzing poetry is a delicate process which can bring about a different meaning to each person who reads a poem. Rather than having there be a correct answer or meaning, Billy Collins is suggesting that there are many different hidden points and messages in a certain poem. Based on a person's past experiences allows each person to draw out a different conclusion from each poem. He says that a child or person should not be tortured or punished for producing a "wrong" or "invalid" answer. Instead, they should be encouraged to show their creativity and individuality by finding a piece of themselves in a poem. I think that is why poetry is so interesting to people: each person can find a different message in a poem that is significant to him or herself.
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\nI ask them to take a poem
\nand hold it up to the light
\nlike a color slide
\n
\nThis stanza compares poems to a piece of paper; it is delicate and can be many different shades.
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\nor press an ear against its hive.
\n
\nI say drop a mouse into a poem
\nand watch him probe his way out,
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\nor walk inside the poem's room
\nand feel the walls for a light switch.
\n
\nI want them to waterski
\nacross the surface of a poem
\nwaving at the author's name on the shore.
\n
\nBut all they want to do
\nis tie the poem to a chair with rope
\nand torture a confession out of it.
\n
\nThey begin beating it with a hose
\nto find out what it really means.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}