Billy Collin's Poem

After watching all five animated poems of Billy Collins, I think that actually making poems into animations is a really smart and cool idea. Nowadays, most teenagers don't like poetry and normally wouldn't want to "waste" the energy and time to try to understand a poem. When making an animation about the poem, watchers can have an easier way of understanding the poem and form the images more easier. But I think the con of making these animated poems is that even though it forms the images in the watchers/ readers mind more easily, it might not be a good thing because the purpose of reading a poem might sometimes be to form the image in the reader's own way, not by looking at the way other people interpret it. The favorite one of the five would be "The Dead". I think that this poem by itself isn't really that hard to understand, and with the animation, which was done in a really cute and simple way. The ending of the poem kind of scared me though, having dead spirits look at us when we're sleeping? That would totally freak me out if it were true and I found out about it. It's nice to have people caring about you, but having them stare at you when you sleep is kind of over the line.