In Billy Collins’s poem “ Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” his diction was very intriguing to the readers. His word choice made the readers visualize the scenario and understand everything that was going on. When I first read the title I was a little confused on why we had to read such a poem, but then I soon understood. Billy Collins’s style of writing is very unique and different. It’s not like Robert Frosts’ or Edgar Allen Poe’s writing . I found this writing interesting because his poem title was a very bold choice and he followed through in making this short poem a beautiful piece of writing. A reader of Collins’s poems said, “Rarely has anyone written poems that appear so transparent on the surface yet become so ambiguous, thought-provoking,
