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1. This link takes you to a review by Jeremy Noel Tod for London’s The Guardian. How do Collins's poems and their humor lure you, and do they lead you to somewhere deeper and more serious? What is Tod’s overall conclusion about Collins’ poems?
2. Billy Collins wrote this essay about American poetry. Do his works in Responding to Literature contain American idioms, and how will these idioms affect the prospect of these poems becoming timeless and universal?