Forgetfulness By Billy Collins

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I chose Billy Collins because during the process of selecting a poet I came across his poem Forgetfulness and felt connection to it, though I can not remember why. Finding information on Billy Collin’s life was easy using the research to form coherent thoughts and turning those thoughts into sentences worthy of a grade is impossible.Using the Gale database to find my sources was easy because all of the featured articles are guaranteed to be credible but remixing the articles into original understandings.

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