Analysis Of The Poem The New Land By Billy Collins

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The poem was about people who moved a lot. In the beginning they could not get used to it and they did not feel comfortable with that kind of life. Then after the people in the poem began their new lives , they started only packing minimal things for their fantasy house they would come back to everyday. They would feel happy with this new style of living.
In the poem they use a lot of figurative language for example there is the first one. “We felt like red balloons set adrift over the wide sky of this new land.”- This mean that they felt like they did not know anything about this new land and that they were just wandering around the place not knowing where they were. Secondly, “never staying long enough to learn the secret ways of wood

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