In the poems “To Paint a Water Lily” by Ted Hughes and “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins the audiences notice similar patterns throughout them and end with a similar theme in the end. Both poems have a wave of rhythm with highs and lows at various points which mirrors the ways of teaching. Hughes’s poem tries to teach that nature is too complex to be captured and painted. Collin’s poem is a teacher talking to his students trying to get them to enjoy the poetry and admire the complexity that for example, Hughes demonstrates so nicely. In both poems, Hughes and Collins examine the world of nature to try to explain how complicated life and poetry are.
The highs and lows of these poems are what make them resemble each other so much. Just like teaching whether you are teaching someone to tie their shoes or teaching them calculus, there are times when the wave crashes and retreats and times when the wave comes roaring toward the shore full of potential. In Collins 1st line “I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide” (Collin 1) it is calm and promotes thought. Just as in Hughes’s 1st …show more content…
Hughes’s “To Paint a Water Lily” tries to explain the complexity of nature and Collin’s “Introduction to Poetry” attempts to account for the complexity of poetry. In Hughes’s poem, an overseer tries to explain to the audience that you can never capture nature in a painting. The narrator teaches its audience how confusing the outside world is and how humans are not capable of understanding such beauty. In Collin’s poem, the narrator is a teacher speaking to his pupils trying to explain the joys of poetry. The narrator sheds light on his students trying to make them understand how much fun poetry can be if the reader just lets it. The two narrators of these poems are one in the same, both trying to get a complicated message across to the readers and succeeding when speaking to the right
The highs and lows of these poems are what make them resemble each other so much. Just like teaching whether you are teaching someone to tie their shoes or teaching them calculus, there are times when the wave crashes and retreats and times when the wave comes roaring toward the shore full of potential. In Collins 1st line “I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide” (Collin 1) it is calm and promotes thought. Just as in Hughes’s 1st …show more content…
Hughes’s “To Paint a Water Lily” tries to explain the complexity of nature and Collin’s “Introduction to Poetry” attempts to account for the complexity of poetry. In Hughes’s poem, an overseer tries to explain to the audience that you can never capture nature in a painting. The narrator teaches its audience how confusing the outside world is and how humans are not capable of understanding such beauty. In Collin’s poem, the narrator is a teacher speaking to his pupils trying to explain the joys of poetry. The narrator sheds light on his students trying to make them understand how much fun poetry can be if the reader just lets it. The two narrators of these poems are one in the same, both trying to get a complicated message across to the readers and succeeding when speaking to the right