Marianne Moore: "Poetry" - Discuss

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• line breaks to add emphasis and meaning to each definition

- clear, specific imagery

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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…

Answer 3

then you are interested in poetry

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

is useful

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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