1. Does Billy Collins have an intent to make this poem ironic?
2. Why does Billy Collins steal the first two lines?
3. Why those lines specifically?
4. What is the intent of Billy Collins by writing this poem?
5. How does Billy Collins feel about comparisons in western love poetry?
6. What is the meaning of the poem's title "Litany"?
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6. A Litany is a list of devotional words, and he is mocking that type of poem.
ReplyDelete5. i think he feels that they are stupid and that is why he spends his rewrite mocking them.
1. yes he has that intent, I am pretty sure he is trying to make it ironic that hes writing one while he is mocking one.
2. I think that he steals the first two lines of the other poem because he thinks that they are absurd. When listening to his poem, I feel that he is using sarcasm while reading the lines. I think that he is making fun of the other poem by writing one that is similar.
ReplyDelete4. As before, I think that he is trying to show how strange it is to compare someone to a knife or a piece of bread. Like, seriously? Why would someone WANT to be a goblet?
6. I think that he is trying to show that litany doesn't work the way that the writer wants it to. If it was me receiving this poem, I certainly wouldn't feel that it was devotional...