- The Lanyard - Poetry Foundation
No cookie nibbled by a French novelist could send one into the past more suddenly— a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp by a deep Adirondack lake learning how to braid long thin plastic strips into a lanyard, a gift for my mother
- The Lanyard by Billy Collins - Famous poems, famous poets . . . - All Poetry
Through the metaphor of the lanyard, the poem suggests that the act of giving and receiving is a complex and often unequal exchange It questions the notion that we can fully repay our loved ones for their love and support, concluding that even the most inadequate gift can hold deep significance
- Billy Collins – The Lanyard - Genius
Billy Colins, former poet laureate, crafts a poem about mothers and lanyards that is at once humorous, insightful, and touching In “The Lanyard,” he illustrates just how much mothers
- The Lanyard Poem by Billy Collins - InternetPoem. com
A past where I sat at a workbench at a camp by a deep Adirondack lake learning how to braid thin plastic strips into a lanyard A gift for my mother I had never seen anyone use a lanyard Or wear one, if that's what you did with them
- The Lanyard, by Billy Collins | poems, essays, and short . . . - Poeticous
learning how to braid thin plastic strips into a lanyard A gift for my mother I had never seen anyone use a lanyard Or wear one, if that’s what you did with them again and again until I had made a boxy, red and white lanyard for my mother and taught me to walk and swim and I in turn presented her with a lanyard
- Poem by Billy Collins: The Lanyard. by Wayne Blair - Poetry. com
red and white lanyard for my mother She gave me life and milk from her breasts, and I gave her a lanyard She nursed me in many a sick room, lifted spoons of medicine to my lips, laid cold face-cloths on my forehead, and then led me out into the airy light and taught me to walk and swim, and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard
- The Lanyard - Poem Miner
learning how to braid thin plastic strips into a lanyard A gift for my mother I had never seen anyone use a lanyard Or wear one, if that’s what you did with them But that did not keep me from crossing strand over strand again and again until I had made a boxy, red and white lanyard for my mother She gave me life and milk from her breasts,
- Explanation of THE LANYARD by BILLY COLLINS - Poetry Explorer
"The Lanyard" is a poem by Billy Collins that explores the relationship between a mother and son through the lens of a simple gift The poem was published in Collins' 2001 collection "Sailing Alone Around the Room" and has become one of his most popular and beloved works
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