Mrs. Moore's Poetry

The speaker's initial feelings towards poetry was distasteful. Mrs. Moore, starts off her poem with "I, too, dislike it" (Line 1) after this reading this section of the poem, you may assume she dislikes poetry, but, if you continue to read the rest of the quotation she carries on to say "there are things that are important beyond this fiddle". (Line 1). It's clear to see her first reaction to poetry has changed from disliking to all poetry, to her understanding the true meaning behind the poetry. The speaker has, also, developed a new understanding after she evaluated a poem which did in fact change her entire stance on what poetry is. She continues on to say "Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in it after all, a place for the genuine" (Line 2-4). The information we can gather from these quotations is when finding the right poem, we are able to have alternative ideas on what makes poetry, poetry. The speaker does …show more content…
Mrs. Moore's is a woman who was not able to develop an understanding behind the poetry, she had outer body experience trying to obtain the idea behind the poetry. When it comes to poetry the speaker wants us to understand we must have an imaginary insight when analyzing poetry. We find evidence of this occurrence is when she says "the same thing may be said for all of us—that we do not admire what" (Line 13-14) the meaning behind this quotation is, when we have an intelligent insight to poetry we are not fully able to understand the true meaning behind the poetry. We mustn't think rationally or logically but rather, figuratively and nonliterary. When the speaker is reaching the end of her poem, she uses phrases like " imaginary gardens with real toads in them" (Line 34) in hopes to show the reader that when thinking of poetry through our imagination we are able to understand the writer's main intentions behind his/her