Read the excerpt from billy collins’s “man listening to disc.” and if any of you are curious about where this aggregation, this whole battery-powered crew, is headed, let us just say that the real center of the universe, the only true point of view, is full of the hope that he, the hub of the cosmos with his hair blown sideways, will eventually make it all the way downtown. what message does collins convey in this excerpt?

In this portion of the poem, “Man Listening to Disc,” Collins is referencing how the narrator is so entwined with the music being listened to through earphones that the person and the band being listened to can be considered one unit.  One possible interpretation of these lines is the message that music has such a unique ability to be uplifting and build confidence that one could consider himself or herself the proverbial center of the universe.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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