Throughout college plenty of students have a least favorite subject. The most dreadful subject that many students dislike is poetry. A tough topic that is difficult for a majority of students to analyze and comprehend is modernist poetry. However, in the twentieth century, one modernist poet understood the concept of how difficult poetry can be. This Famous Poet was known as Marianne Moore. Her poems consisted of linguistic precisions and descriptive wordings throughout her writings. Moore’s poems had a theme of common things that had to do with the American lifestyles. Some examples of the American life include baseball, poetry, and Christmas.
Furthermore, Moore writes about the all American sport, baseball. Titled as ‘Baseball and Writing”. …show more content…
Another famous poem that Marianne Moore wrote is called poetry. Her title automatically gives readers a sense of what the poem will be about. In lines one and two, Moore writes “I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.” The speaker uses “it” referring to poetry and how she dislikes it. As she is already talking about not liking poetry, many readers can relate. Later on in lines ten through thirteen, she says “When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand...” In these lines, she explains how she is not into something that does not have the clarity and originality. Given that she describes how a reader cannot admire anything that they don’t understand, and how it makes them feel unintelligent. Lines twenty-seven through thirty-one she states “In the meantime, 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, you are interested in poetry.” Which ends her poem describing how many poets should use their imagination and be real about their poems. When a poet doesn’t use their imagination is can make a reader become less interested in
Furthermore, Moore writes about the all American sport, baseball. Titled as ‘Baseball and Writing”. …show more content…
Another famous poem that Marianne Moore wrote is called poetry. Her title automatically gives readers a sense of what the poem will be about. In lines one and two, Moore writes “I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.” The speaker uses “it” referring to poetry and how she dislikes it. As she is already talking about not liking poetry, many readers can relate. Later on in lines ten through thirteen, she says “When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand...” In these lines, she explains how she is not into something that does not have the clarity and originality. Given that she describes how a reader cannot admire anything that they don’t understand, and how it makes them feel unintelligent. Lines twenty-seven through thirty-one she states “In the meantime, 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, you are interested in poetry.” Which ends her poem describing how many poets should use their imagination and be real about their poems. When a poet doesn’t use their imagination is can make a reader become less interested in