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In the Room of Thousand Miles

Introduction

Billy Collins is a poet who distilled his poetry a profound sense of humor, which is not only a very brief introduction to the multiple talents that house this author. Incisive and delightfully unpredictable, his poetry captures a universe so often relentlessly at all pleasant. Collins is a voracious reader and his poetry abounds with characters and historical resonance. His poems, intelligent and lucid, are straddling a transparent love for the world and a healthy skepticism of the world. Saturated powerful and original images, surprise the reader in all its folds and all corners, carved with a very rich language and a generous imagination.

Collins is the author of six books of poetry, among them Picnic, Lightning, The Art of Drowning, and Questions about Angels, which was selected for the prestigious National Poetry Series. This fall, Random House published a book of poems chosen, Sailing Alone around the Room. Intelligent and incisive also his poems can be found in the pages of the best American literary magazines such as Poetry, Paris Review and American Poetry Review. Billy Collins has received numerous awards and recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently a professor at Lehman College, City University of New York. In June 2001, Collins was named "Poet Laureate" of the United States.

Thesis Statement

The World Belongs To Human and Blessed With Beauty & Nature

Discussion

The title of the poem is very interesting “In the Room of a Thousand Miles “The poet cleverly titled this poem in the sense that he can see the whole world, and thousands miles far from the room. The poem belongs to our life, our environment, and the whole world. In the poem, the poet is identifying various beauty and cultures of the world (Connolly, p.122). The theme of poetry is to realize the beauty of the world and how people live their life in different parts of the world. The poet has identified the living and non living things in the surrounding. The poet looks happy and charming in his life. He explains that every single part of the world is filled with beauty and happiness if we are positive to see. The immediacy of this particular poem is very good; sometimes the most ordinary, overlooked scenes are the ones that resonate with us most ...