INTRODUCTION TO POETRY BY BILLY COLLINS Wendy Hwang & Kaitlin Walashek Imagery and Figurative Language ◦ Simile: “I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide.” Comparing poem to a colour slide. ◦ Metaphor: “walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.” Comparing the poem to a dark room. ◦ Metaphor: “I want them to water-ski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.” Comparing poem to an ocean by saying ”on the