Towards a Humanitarian Race

A Study in Selected Poems by Billy Collins

المؤلفون

  • MIFTEN I. AL-HUSSEINI University of Baghdad - College of Arts
  • HAITHAM K. AL-ZUBBAIDI, Phd University of Baghdad - College of Arts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i142.3816

الكلمات المفتاحية:

Postmodern poetry، Billy Collins، preaching، Morality، American poetry

الملخص

The purpose of this article is to analyze selected poetic works of Billy Collins (1941-  ), the most popular American poet in the present time, to show a clear line of moral humanitarian preaching that runs under the surface of his often humorous and entertaining poems. The topics discussed in this article include manners, respecting privacy, personal responsibility, self-acceptance, practical living advice, gratitude for life and finding meaning in death. The poems analyzed in this study address a wide range of human issues that are relatable in a global sense. The way Collins delivers these universal messages includes many postmodern devices such as humor, wit, sarcasm, satire and irony. Collins style of writing is freestyle and involves many settings and themes of the everyday and matters that the common person would encounter. The accessibility of his writing has gained him widespread public appeal and his lessons for humanity set him apart from the poetry that is only for entertainment value.

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المراجع

Collins, B. (1988). The Apple That Astonished Paris. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.

--------. (1991). Questions About Angels: Poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

--------. (1998). Picnic, Lightning. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

--------. (2021). Sailing Alone Around the Room. New York: Random House.

--------. (2005). The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems. New York: Random House.

--------. (2011). Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems. New York: Random House.

--------. (2013). Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. New York: Random House.

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منشور

2022-09-15

إصدار

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علم اللغة والأدب الانجليزي

كيفية الاقتباس

Towards a Humanitarian Race: A Study in Selected Poems by Billy Collins. (2022). مجلة الآداب, 3(142), 37-46. https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i142.3816

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