Marianne Moore: "Poetry" - Read

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• varied line lengths and meter

Question 2

one of the things Marianne Moore incorporated into her poem “poetry” that gave it a prose-like feel, was

Answer 2

an occasional complete sentence

Question 3

in lines 25-32 of her poem “poetry,” Marianne Moore is saying that merely designating a writing as “business document,” “school-book,” or “poem”

Answer 3

doesn’t necessarily make it not a poem

Question 4

what does Marianne Moore feel is genuine poetry, according to her poem “poetry”?

Answer 4

genuine poetry is that which has so much realness that it is almost physical

Question 5

one of the conventions of the modernist poets that Marianne Moore experimented with, giving her poem “poetry” a prose-like feel, was

Answer 5

wide variations in meter

Question 6

according to marianne moore in “poetry,” what must poets do to really produce poetry

Answer 6

they must become “literalists of the imagination”/they must be above “insolence and triviality”