Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really mean
s.How does the figurative language in this excerpt reveal Collins’s message?a. It criticizes the way some readers try to understand a poem.b. It criticizes the violent themes found in modern poetry.c. It suggests that the study of poetry requires physical strength.d. It suggests that every poem has a simple meaning.
a. It criticizes the way some readers try to understand a poem
Explanation:
Billy Collins makes a great reference to how some readers try to understand a poem, by saying that they begin beating it with a hose, trying to explain that they take everything too rough and do not consider all the factors, nor try with the care and importance that analyzing a poem should have, he writes in his poem the ways to understand a poem, speaks about
"I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore."
Speaking about a way of getting to know the poem and investigate, about feeling it and letting it take you places, but all what readers want to do is easily and quickly understand it.
<span>d. increased productivity </span> When long-term stress strikes, a person may feel the negative symptoms of the disorder which are evidenced by all of the three answers; whereas the last answer seems to be a positive effect.
