Marianne Moore: "Poetry" - Discuss Flashcards
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- line breaks to add emphasis and meaning to each definition
- clear, specific imagery
one of the passages in Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry” that paints a very clear image is
line 21 – the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flee
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…
then you are interested in poetry
in her poem “poetry,” what message is Marianne Moore attempting to convey with the image in Line 6 – Hands that can grasp?
she is showing us what she means by genuine by relating it to something physical and real
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
is useful
when Marianne Moore says (lines 14-16 of “Poetry”) that “we do not admire what we cannot understand,” she is referring to
words that become so derivative – so far from original – that they become unintelligible