Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points rain down along the sidelines.
He acts as if the words the fans are saying are checkmarks exclamation and asterisks.
49 Matching Annotations
- Aug 2025
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readalittlepoetry.com readalittlepoetry.com
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Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoria jotted along the borders of the Gospels brief
this just showed very vivid imagery
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A few greasy looking smears and next to them, written in soft pencil— by a beautiful girl, I could tell, whom I would never meet— “Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”
I find this part of the text particularly interesting although confusing. "A few greasy looking smears and next to them written in soft pencil" it does not really make since but that is what makes it draw my attention
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Students are more modest needing to leave only their splayed footprints along the shore of the page.
Students do not invest in the story as much as actual critics, instead they leave short, modest notes.
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“Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”
This shows that he doesnt care about the bad things in life and only focuses on the good things.
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One scrawls “Metaphor” next to a stanza of Eliot’s. Another notes the presence of “Irony”
The students write simple things, and don't look deeply into the meaning of the poem
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- Aug 2024
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readalittlepoetry.com readalittlepoetry.com
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Kierkegaard
Billy Collins makes a reference to Søren Kierkegaard who was a Danish theologian and philosopher. He was most famous for being the father of existentialism. He lived from May 1835 - November 1855.He wrote several texts on religion and religious beliefs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
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Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points rain down along the sidelines.
that there is a lot of punctuation on either side of the poem
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Other comments are more offhand, dismissive—
they are random they don't mean anything to you, they are confusing to a point that their dismissive.
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I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
The meaning behind this quote, i believe it to convey something like that the author does not appreciate all the critisisim along the edges of the poem.
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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.
The author of the poem is very likely hinting that if you have gone through all your required years of education and college without marking something, let alone a poem, then you really weren't focused on the writing in front of you.
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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;
Billy Collins is speaking for every English student ever. When annotating a poem, you want people to know that you have been reading the poem. You want people to see that you have put some sort of thought into your reading, and that you're not just some graze reader.
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Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers, Hands cupped around their mouths.
They seem blindly trusting.
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And you have not read Joshua Reynolds, they say, until you have read him enwreathed with Blake’s furious scribbling.
Bro is showing off what he has read.
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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
Understanding the whole concept of the meaning of the poem and why is it so true and learning and everything.;
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- Some notes are furious, questiong the author even while some appear to be rather skimish, not trying to dig deeper into the poem but rather take it that surface level.
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- Some people like to take a poem head on yet from a awkward stance, while some stay back and just cheer on the others. Both need to learn how to step outside of their comfort zones.
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skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just get my hands on you,
So probably disaggering with the author opinion about the poetry meaning not getting in depth with it
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Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
when they talk about the notes are ferocious its fighting for a point.
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Yet the one I think of most often, the one that dangles from me like a locket, was written in the copy of Catcher in the Rye I borrowed from the local library one slow, hot summer. I was just beginning high school then, reading books on a davenport in my parents’ living room, and I cannot tell you how vastly my loneliness was deepened, how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed, when I found on one pageA few greasy looking smears and next to them, written in soft pencil— by a beautiful girl, I could tell, whom I would never meet— “Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”
this shows that books are very memorable
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- Aug 2023
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www.poetryfoundation.org www.poetryfoundation.org
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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.
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- Jun 2022
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www.themarginalian.org www.themarginalian.org
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Marginalia by Billy Collins https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/07/17/billy-collins-reads-marginalia/
A poem about marginalia that is often used as an annotation exercise by educators in the social annotation space.
Other versions with Hypothes.is annotations: - https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/marginalia/ - https://bookpeopleblog.com/2011/04/11/poem-of-the-day-marginalia-by-billy-collins/ - https://readalittlepoetry.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/marginalia-by-billy-collins/<br /> - https://genius.com/1350507
See also: - https://hypothes.is/search?q=%22billy+collins%22+%22marginalia%22 - https://web.hypothes.is/blog/back-to-school-with-annotation-10-ways-to-annotate-with-students/#annotations:AVNW3KKOH9ZO4OKSlHwN
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- Aug 2021
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www.themarginalian.org www.themarginalian.org
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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?
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“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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author
So many times I have done this.
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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"
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We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show
Says everybody has partaken.
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- Feb 2021
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bookpeopleblog.com bookpeopleblog.com
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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!
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- Sep 2020
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www.poemhunter.com www.poemhunter.com
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very good imagery
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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.
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#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?
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- Aug 2020
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bookpeopleblog.com bookpeopleblog.com
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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'.
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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.
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- Jun 2020
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readalittlepoetry.wordpress.com readalittlepoetry.wordpress.com
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“Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”
referring to "Catcher in the Rye", I fell in love with that book too.
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white perimeter
The white border of the page.
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Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points rain down along the sidelines.
The readers expression on how they feel about the text.
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Sometimes the notes are ferocious
Here his saying, sometimes there are lots of notes on the page. aggressive annotating.
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- Oct 2018
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bookpeopleblog.com bookpeopleblog.com
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skirmishes
Why do you think Collins has chosen the word "skirmishes" here?
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- Aug 2016
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scottbevill.net scottbevill.net
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Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
This is saying that sometimes notes can be kind of rude and mean.
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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.
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“Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”
All things have beauty in them.
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Billy Collins
Appointed as poet laureate during 2001 and 2003
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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
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notes are ferocious
The notes here are not the music notes we see but more as a harsh attack on the author
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- Mar 2016
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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Billy Collins’ poem “Marginalia”
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- Aug 2015
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learning.instructure.com learning.instructure.com
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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.
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