Question at the bottom.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

What overall effect does Collins create by using the metaphors of waterskiing and torture? Choose the best answer.

1He shows that he has a lot to learn from his students about reading poetry and getting the meaning out of it.
2He shows that readers should interpret poetry however they prefer to, even if it means torture.
3He shows that students want a clear meaning from the poem, but poetry should not be limited to just one meaning.

Moritz is designing an advertisement to go with president barack obama's back-to-school remarks. how should moritz's ad be similar to the speech? it should be concise. it should be repetitive. it should be persuasive. it should be eye-catching.

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

Pl true or false: a hyphen can indicate that a word has been split up at the end of a line and continues onto the next line.