Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore was one of the most famous poets of the modernist era, appreciated in both social and literary spheres, yet differed from other poets of her time because of how her language was condensed and precise, capable of suggesting a variety of ideas. Her ability to combine multiple associations into a single, compact image allows her characters to be conveyed intricately, as seen in her poems “Radical,” “Poetry,” “Silence,” and “The Fish.” Within the poems I have chosen to analyze, through the use of her imagery and syntax, Moore demonstrates the challenges humans have to comprehend emotions and detect truth while encouraging her readers to uncover the underlying, principle meaning beneath everything. Imagism was a movement popular…

Marianne Moore was a small town girl, born around St. Louis Missouri. She moved around alot in her life. When Marianne Moore was reaching adolescence, her father left her and her mother, leaving them with no money to keep their house. So they had to move to her grandfather's house and stay there until his death. Which was on 1894. They just moved from one relative to another until the big move to carlisle, PA. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following…

''Poetry'' by Marianne Moore was very interesting. For you to understand this poem you have to break it down paragraph by paragraph to truly understand the meaning that's in this. This Poem at first was confusing I had to read it a second time to understand what's going on. The way this poem was set, it was hard to find out the meaning. I think out of all the other poems I think this one was the hardest to crack down, but the best thing out of this poem was when I finally understood it, I was…

rejection of traditional poetry allows for new contrasting and often conflicting ideas to come together into one. The poetry of Marianne Moore in particular is full of contradictions; she examines average subjects in hyper-detail and employs both precision and an overabundance of metaphor and anecdote in order to develop her own personal style. Her poem “Marriage” is a fragmented piece that tackles the inherently contradictory “institution” of marriage. This caustic poem nearly totals 300 lines,…

A modernist by trade, William Carlos Williams works with other artists in an effort to start and perpetuate a new movement. Working within the constraints that focused on breaking free from past restrictions and conscriptions with an eye towards current events and cultural influences, Williams is building something beautifully simplistic in his poetry. Towards the beginning of his efforts in poetry Williams’ underlines the fears associated with the cultural change to modernism, and the prevalent…

The poem that is being analyzed is “Poetry” by Marianne Moore. This poem is a powerful piece of literary text which explorers the speaker’s dislike for poetry and acknowledges poetry as a place for the genuine. The title “Poetry” is significant for many reasons but most importantly it represents the speaker’s view of poetry and is the first line that begins the poem. Its significance is show when Moore states “I, too, dislike it” which means she is referring to the previous line and title,…

The poem “Poetry” by Marianne Moore explains what makes poetry, poetry. She uses different poem techniques to display her thoughts of what it is like to read poems. The author regards poetry from the view of someone who does not understand poetry in all its “rawness” (Moore line 37). She states what most people are thinking when they read poetry. Moore uses imagery, diction, and metaphor to emphasize that poetry is necessary for people to have an outlet. The way the reader perceives the poem…

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…

the poems, short stories, and novels we read are not clear-cut on what the author is trying to propose. Kurt Vonnegut and Marianne Moore begin their writing with a weird concept. They use first person in their first line or chapter and then switch to third person. This left many people including me questioning the point. Vonnegut and Moore share some similar features in their writings, but also have their own reasoning on why to start in such a odd, effective way. Slaughterhouse-five 's first…

Many modernist poets believed that concreteness of detail was crucial to their writing, and aimed to use concrete objects to communicate their poetic ideas. Robert Frost and Marianne Moore both used concrete objects to describe how these details communicated their response to the changes of the Modernist era. In, “Poetry” Moore used concrete objects to emphasize the difference between materialistic views as opposed to the meaning of meaningful and emotional text. In “Nothing Gold Can Stay”…