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note

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  • line breaks to add emphasis and meaning to each definition

- clear, specific imagery

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one of the passages in Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry” that paints a very clear image is

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line 21 – the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flee

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Marianne Moore, in Lines 39-43 of “poetry,” says that, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine…

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then you are interested in poetry

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in her poem “poetry,” what message is Marianne Moore attempting to convey with the image in Line 6 – Hands that can grasp?

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she is showing us what she means by genuine by relating it to something physical and real

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in her poem “poetry,” Marianne Moore says the genuine is important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon it (liens 8-12), but because it

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is useful

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when Marianne Moore says (lines 14-16 of “Poetry”) that “we do not admire what we cannot understand,” she is referring to

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words that become so derivative – so far from original – that they become unintelligible

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