Read the poem below and answer the question that follows. "introduction to poetry" by billy collins i ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. i say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. i want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. but all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. source: collins, billy. "introduction to poetry." poets. org. academy of american poets, n. d. web. 4 apr. 2011. which type of literary theory would examine the relationship between the poem and billy collins? mimetic expressive rhetorical formal

Expressive

Explanation:

For better understanding, we must know what each type of literary theory means:

The mimetic theory judges the literary work based in the relation between the outside world and the work.  

The rhetorical theory is based in the relationship between the literary work and the audience, for example, how it makes the reader feel.

The formal theory is the study of the work minimizing the connections of the work with the outside world, the author and the audience.  

The expressive theory is focus in the relationship between the author or artist and the work of art.

In this case the author is describing his work (the poem) demonstrating his feelings and connections with it, for this reason, the theory that would apply is the expressive.

B. expressive.

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