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They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. How does the figurative language in this excerpt reveal Collins’s message?

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Collin criticizes the way some readers try to understand a poem, that readers should be patient and open minded when reading poems in order to see the meaning, not to over-analyze it. To go with the flow and focus on the poem itself, to get inside the poem and see what it means.
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