Poetry (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marianne Moore
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Perception, Nature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Reality, Criticism, Animals
The Poem
Marianne Moore’s “Poetry,” one of her earliest lyrics, is written in free verse. It is so subtle in its arrangement on the page as to seem almost fragmentary, a quality frequently found among Imagist poets of the early twentieth century. The Imagist movement, by which she was much influenced, proposed in their manifesto to discard the shopworn and hackneyed diction of the previous generation. They intended to free poetry from the strictures of metrical patterns so as to approximate more closely the rhythms of colloquial speech.
Moore begins her poem with...
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