Billy Collins is one among the most renowned poets of the time. He is basically and American and has contributed so much into the poetry world. He has been honored by many awards like The National Endowment for Arts, Fellowships from the New York foundation for Arts and many more.
He is well known for his witty, conversational poems, that welcomes the readers and would have subjects of everyday life matters. Even though he started his career early, it was only with his fourth book, Questions about Angels that led him into the spotlight.
Collins prefers to write in simple language and an easily understood format, so that the readers do not find it difficult to understand what he would like to convey.
Forgetfulness is a wonderful poem that illustrates about one’s forgetting capacity. People do have the tendency of forgetting and many a times are in situations that the poet has explained in the poem. We do find people who say that they cannot remember anything other than it started with particular letter, or maybe a place detailing or anything of that kind.
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Being forgetful is not a sin, however it could be annoying at times. People, who are forgetful, could very well appreciate his work as they truly understand how it feels to be forgetful. The experience of people with dementia, Alzheimer’s, comatose or the fear of losing memory could explain exactly what this poem is to them as it is such a tragic situation to forget things in life and to be blank.
Loss of memory is the worst scenario any person could go through. The pain is immense and agony not to be mentioned. The pain in the loved and dear ones cannot be explained in any words.
Here Collins has bought out such feelings of people who have lost memory and their state in simple language. A deeper thought into the poem would make us feel and understand the pain they are going through.
A wonderful thought and feel put into simple words, which one has to give a thought about is all what Forgetfulness is all about…