Comments on: Billy Collins – The Lanyard http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/ Variety Of Colors & Sizes Available. Get Your Plastic Lanyards Here Cheap. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:34:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: meieronfire http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-53 meieronfire Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:06:39 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-53 tremendous message, the archaic truth had me in tears tremendous message, the archaic truth had me in tears

]]> By: anancybrown http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-52 anancybrown Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:50:07 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-52 I love this poem so much! Billy Collins is brilliant. I love this poem so much! Billy Collins is brilliant.

]]> By: nacho862 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-51 nacho862 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:17:24 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-51 i really like this poem, but there is one line a cannot understand. what does he mean by a "cookie nibbled by a French novelist"? i really like this poem, but there is one line a cannot understand. what does he mean by a “cookie nibbled by a French novelist”?

]]> By: ImTestingSleeping http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-50 ImTestingSleeping Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:37:34 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-50 He means that there are little things in this world that are like gateways into our childhoods. Some people might be more likely to guard the fact of childish activity that we all, without exception, experience. A French novelist is stereotyped as a very snotty type of person, but cookies are almost synonymous with childhood, so he's saying that the word lanyard for him sent him back to his childhood for a second just like a cookie might for a French novelist. He means that there are little things in this world that are like gateways into our childhoods. Some people might be more likely to guard the fact of childish activity that we all, without exception, experience.

A French novelist is stereotyped as a very snotty type of person, but cookies are almost synonymous with childhood, so he’s saying that the word lanyard for him sent him back to his childhood for a second just like a cookie might for a French novelist.

]]> By: nacho862 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-49 nacho862 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:58:17 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-49 that is a very good answer. thank you, kind sir. that is a very good answer. thank you, kind sir.

]]> By: ljeffrie http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-48 ljeffrie Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:25:17 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-48 A better answer: This reference is certainly to the French novelist Marcel Proust's famous novel, Remembrance of Things Past. The narrator eats a sort of "cookie" (a "Madeleine") and is fully carried away into the past. Collins's poetry is full of such literary references. Who says French novelists are snotty? A better answer: This reference is certainly to the French novelist Marcel Proust’s famous novel, Remembrance of Things Past. The narrator eats a sort of “cookie” (a “Madeleine”) and is fully carried away into the past. Collins’s poetry is full of such literary references.

Who says French novelists are snotty?

]]> By: ImTestingSleeping http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-47 ImTestingSleeping Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:55:27 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-47 In American culture, the French are stereotyped as being snotty and novelists are also stereotyped as being snotty. I'm not saying that French novelists are snotty, but I am saying that the stereotype exists. In American culture, the French are stereotyped as being snotty and novelists are also stereotyped as being snotty. I’m not saying that French novelists are snotty, but I am saying that the stereotype exists.

]]> By: n1kk1v1 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-46 n1kk1v1 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:54:57 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-46 definitely a reference to Proust. definitely a reference to Proust.

]]> By: sallypotmeandfred http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-45 sallypotmeandfred Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:03:31 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-45 It's interesting hearing it read out loud...I don't know if I see it as humorous as the audience did,(that is not to say that it's without humor). Putsit in another perspective that's for sure. I'm interested to hear other's thoughts. It’s interesting hearing it read out loud…I don’t know if I see it as humorous as the audience did,(that is not to say that it’s without humor). Putsit in another perspective that’s for sure. I’m interested to hear other’s thoughts.

]]> By: littlewisp http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/comment-page-1/#comment-44 littlewisp Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:24:31 +0000 http://plasticlanyards.net/billy-collins-the-lanyard/#comment-44 I was just about to reply to that when I saw this. Glad I caught it or I would have felt silly and redundant. As for the stereotype, I think it exists for some people, but I don't think it has anything to do with Proust's petite madeleine in the Swann's Way Cambray (Overture), which Collins refers too in this WONDERFUL poem. I was just about to reply to that when I saw this. Glad I caught it or I would have felt silly and redundant. As for the stereotype, I think it exists for some people, but I don’t think it has anything to do with Proust’s petite madeleine in the Swann’s Way Cambray (Overture), which Collins refers too in this WONDERFUL poem.

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