Analysis Of Lanyard By Billy Collins

The author, Collins, sets up this poem in a humorous manner to recount what he remembers during summer camp. During summer camp, the speaker is busy with his everyday tasks. He becomes nostalgic when he finds himself in the L section of the dictionary and” his eyes fall upon the word lanyard.” He decides to give a lanyard to his mother, as a gift. . The author makes the reader laugh and enjoy the poem by writing about the magnificence and generosity of a mother raising a child, and notes “that you can never repay your mother,”
As readers we can consider the lanyard as “a thought that really counts." The lanyard signifies the creative gift the kid comes up with to even up with his mother. The lanyard gift is a way the kid is trying to repay