Voice By Billy Collins Annotated

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The poem begins with a direct speech from the speaker establishing one specific day in time where one has an epiphany of what one’s purpose in life is. In the three next lines, a symbol is introduced as the “voices”. The “voices” represent other people, mainly those who are part of one’s life but are not beneficial to one’s personal growth. These three lines reveal the true intentions of those voices as they keep saying the wrong things and shifting one’s mind in a different direction. The next four lines utilizes metaphors to emphasize one’s perseverance. The first one is of your mind becoming a chaos, a mess; a mess of thoughts trying to organize themselves in order to come back with a stronger sense of determination. The second one is of

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