Billy Collins TED Talk

I thought Collins's idea of setting poems into motion was a great idea and really enjoyed reading the animations. From the five poems that I have read, my favorite is the poem, " Somedays" since it has the deepest message in it. I thought the poem conveyed a special tone of loneliness as it described the life of a person, how he could be the controller one day, and the controlled in other days. Some days, he was the one who put people in their places at the table, bending their legs at the knees, and other days, he was picked by the ribs and into the dining room of a dollhouse. In some ways, I think collins was conveying a message of the vanity of life. Throughout the poem he used the sentences such as " I put the people in their places at the table," or " lowered into the dining room of a dollhouse" that gave readers an image of a little girl playing with her toys. Life is nothing but a game, and destiny is the little girl. Destiny often times can be trivial by their means and favor only certain types of characters, the heroic ones, the beautiful ones. You can never predict what will come later in life, you may be a vivid God with your shoulders in the clouds, or you can be another figure with a little plastic face with absolute no control of our destiny.  I think the way Collins expressed his thoughts on life through this poem was extremely interesting. I'm not sure that I have such a pessimistic view point on life, but I do think this is a good poem.