29 Matching Annotations
  1. Aug 2023
    1. This poem analyzes why we read. The way Billy Collins does this is through her analysis explaining in some way's, why people write. She expresses her thoughts in stanza two where she is filling her mind with vivid imagery about another who shared their experience within a piece of literature. She views writing as a median of passing along an experience for others to understand and thus reading is an escape into another's mind.

  2. Jun 2022
  3. Aug 2021
    1. how vastly my loneliness was deepened, how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed, when I found on one page

      Why did the annotation on this page mean so much to the author?

    2. “Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”

      This Marginalia written by a person who the narrator thinks is a beautiful girl has used this book as an escape (escapism) and in doing so she has accidentally sweared egg salad in the book

    3. Yet the one I think of most often, the one that dangles from me like a locket,

      I like the way he describes the books. I like how he describes or really compares it to how it sets on him like a locket.

    4. anonymous men catching a ride into the future on a vessel more lasting than themselves.

      It is so interesting to think about how many people have read from one copy of a book. So many people have held it like their own and dove into those pages and left their "footprints" in it. It is so cool and it really gives books character.

    5. And if you have managed to graduate from college without ever having written “Man vs. Nature” in a margin, perhaps now is the time to take one step forward.

      encouraging us to annotate, to appreciate them

    6. Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author

      So many times I have done this.

    7. And if you have managed to graduate from college without ever having written “Man vs. Nature”

      Not even been to college yet and I think I have already written about "Man vs. Nature"

    8. We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show

      Says everybody has partaken.

  4. Feb 2021
    1. We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages

      LOL, I do this in my kindle!

  5. Sep 2020
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      very good imagery

    2. #40 on top 500 poets Billy Collins Poems Comments Stats E-Books Biography Poems by Billy Collins : 23 / 52 « prev. poem next poem » Marginalia Poem by Billy Collins var videoContent = document.getElementById('contentElement'); var offsetWidth = videoContent.offsetWidth; var offsetHeight = videoContent.offsetHeight; var referrer_url = document.referrer; var adsManager; var adsLoader; var adDisplayContainer; var intervalTimer; var vast_code = 'https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-video-pub-3785345259461815&slotname=Poemhunter_Desktop_Preroll&ad_type=video&description_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poemhunter.com&max_ad_duration=30000&videoad_start_delay=0&vpmute=0&vpa=0'; if (referrer_url.indexOf("poemhunter.com") == -1 || referrer_url.indexOf("poemhunter.com") >= 20 || referrer_url == null || referrer_url == "") { videoContent.muted = true; } function createAdDisplayContainer() { adDisplayContainer = new google.ima.AdDisplayContainer(document.getElementById('adContainer')); 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} }; Sometimes the notes are ferocious,skirmishes against the authorraging along the borders of every pagein tiny black script.

      I agree with this statement. I think it is very relatable to the world today on how many things are biased and one sided.

    3. #40 on top 500 poets Billy Collins Poems Comments Stats E-Books Biography Poems by Billy Collins : 23 / 52 « prev. poem next poem » Marginalia

      What does marginalia mean...possibly related to the root margin?

  6. Aug 2020
    1. without ever having written “Man vs. Nature”

      Literature does not always need to be written to fit a literary device and people tend to squeeze art into a 'box'.

    2. trying to imagine what the person must look like who wrote “Don’t be a ninny” alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson.

      Commentators or critics can really not appreciate work for what it is.

  7. Jun 2020
    1. “Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”

      referring to "Catcher in the Rye", I fell in love with that book too.

    2. white perimeter

      The white border of the page.

    3. Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points rain down along the sidelines.

      The readers expression on how they feel about the text.

    4. Sometimes the notes are ferocious

      Here his saying, sometimes there are lots of notes on the page. aggressive annotating.

  8. Oct 2018
  9. Aug 2016
    1. Sometimes the notes are ferocious,

      This is saying that sometimes notes can be kind of rude and mean.

    2. We have all seized the white perimeter as our own

      The author is saying that we all at one point have annotated a text using the outside margins.

    3. “Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”

      All things have beauty in them.

    4. Billy Collins

      Appointed as poet laureate during 2001 and 2003

    5. the author in my opinion is saying how students all have this one stategy on writing and how we shpuld broaden our ways and expand our thoughts from more than one way

    6. notes are ferocious

      The notes here are not the music notes we see but more as a harsh attack on the author

  10. Mar 2016
  11. Aug 2015
    1. Billy Collins’ poem “Marginalia”

      The poem opens:

      Sometimes the notes are ferocious,<br><br> skirmishes against the author<br><br> raging along the borders of every page<br><br> in tiny black script.<br><br> If I could just get my hands on you,<br><br> Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien,<br><br> they seem to say,<br><br> I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.

      Annotated by myself and others here on Lit Genius.