Introduction to Poetry Symbolism, Imagery & Wordplay

 The poem is looked at, listened to, and rodent tested. This imagery supports one of Collins's central ideas in the poem, that reading poetry should be, like an exploration, an act of discover...

There is no denying that good times surface in the fifth stanza. People are having a great time, the sun is shining, there are burgers on the grill, the drinks are cold, that cutie you've had a cru...

Not what you'd expect to see in a poem with so much "Fun," but what can we say, Billy rolls hard. In stanzas 6 and 7, things take a markedly dark turn. Instead of exploration and fun, we get… med...