Reference no: EM133991592

Assignment:

Billy Collins, "Divorce"

1. How does Collins use each piece of cutlery as a "character" in the poem? How does each evoke a certain mood or tone?
2. The poem is very short. What effect does this produce on you as the reader? How does the form of the poem contribute to the theme?
3. The poem relies on the extended metaphor that compares a relationship to silverware. Why might the author have chosen silverware as the basis for the comparison? What effect does it produce in the poem?
4. What if the divorced couple reconciled or remarried in the future? write a Part II to the poem, which would detail this later life event, but preserve the silverware metaphor that Collins uses in the original. What might the silverware do or what might happen to it?