What I find most interesting is that this is the definition of what Jonathon Lethem spoke about in his essay The Ecstasy of Influence. You see, Billy Collins has taken a love poem that I'm sure others have somewhat created on their own and morphed it into his own piece, the definition of what Lethem believes is correct.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Litany: Part 2
I rather enjoy this poem. It's intriguing to me because he completely bashes any original love poem anybody has written. He's totally taken what should be the definition of a romantic poem and changed it, but he's done it in a funny way so it works. I'd never read this type of thing on my own, so it's something new to me.
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I completely agree. I love how he just bashes what the original writer is saying, and just keeps ripping on him throughout the poem. I have also never seen anything like it, and that is why i think it works so well.
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