Poets - Billy Collins

Why do I like choose this poet? Well I found his name in the Most Popular Contemporary Poets column rank first! It immediately came to my mind," This must be a extremely good poet." I clicked on his name, and saw what he has written so far. 11 books and 33 poems! I started reading on one of his poems, fishing on the Susquehanna in July. It was a stunning piece of poetry. I can picture vividly what he is trying to convey to me in my mind. I can picture how the Susquehanna looked like. I can picture how he feels while fishing on the Susquehanna. This piece of work is amazing. Because of this work, i knew that this is not his best poem and hence i went to google to search on him in order to know more about this fantastic poet. Born in 22ND March, 1941, in the capital of the United States. His parents are William and Katherine Collins. Collins notable book was The Apple that Astonished Paris. I then continued to search on more of his poems. One of them was - Some Days. I could not really understand what he was trying to say, but his style of writing is almost the same as Fishing on the Susquehanna in July. he likes to describe the person or place very vividly that you can picture what it looks like in your mind. He does not really use very flamboyant words or phrases, but after you read his poem, you would be scratching your head, trying to understand what he is trying to say. At the end, he does not really conclude everything, he keeps a little bit of information to himself, making you think after reading his poem. I then read another of his poems, The Golden Years. In this poem, he is talking about a phesant bridge. He describes what he can do and see there at the Phesant bridge. Again, he describes what he can see vividly. This may not be a very long poem, but it is fantastic.

Billy Collins' work is fantastic, but most of the time, i cannot really understand what he is trying to say. But after reading a few times i finally got what he was trying to convey to me.

My three favourite poems written by him are, Fishing on Susquahanna in July, Some Days and the Golden Years.