Reflection on Billy Collins Poem - Forgetfulness

I watched the animation for the poem 'forgetfulness'. I really liked this poem because I can relate to it a lot.  The poem was about how sometimes after we read a book, we would forget its contents, author, etc. That is very true in my case a lot of the times. On many occasions, I could vaguely remember a part of a plot, but won't be able to connect it with the rest of a book. I really like the metaphors Collins used in the poem, especially: "the memories you used to harbor/decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,/to a little fishing village where there are no phones." The descriptions used to describe how memeories slowly fade away were very clverely crafted, in my opinion. I thought that he did a good job on making us envision, and live through again, what it is like to be forgetting something we learned. I also thought this poem showed a lot of intelligence on Collin's part. I liked his allusions to Greek Mythology, with the 9 muses, the Lethe River (the river of forgetfullness in the underworld, which he mentioned in: "It has floated away down a dark mythological river,/whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall") But however, I noticed that as the poem goes on, it also drifts into forgetting not only books, but skills such as 'how to swim' and 'how to ride a bike'. Also, the animation itself was pretty cool, with the pictures disappearing, etc. to show 'forgetfullness'. It created a good visual effect. I thought this poem was very well-written and I enjoyed it.