Poetry Hugh Moore

‘Look We Have Come Through! The title of this section suggests a note of hope and faith in human resilience. How far is this reflected in the poems?’

|Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. |

Geraldine Moore The Poet - Theme The short story Geraldine Moore The Poet encompasses many themes. I believe the main two are, expressing one’s feelings often lead to the better and that negativity never benefits you or others.

This poem dramatizes the conflict between superior and common people, particularly in the way the poet’s father portrays, with great admiration, a key traits of superior people. Marianne Moore’s “Silence” is an odd poem. It does not tell a story, but it still feels like a narrative in the way it is written. The poem is made up of a dialogue between the speaker, Marianne Moore, and the person she is quoting, her father. Moore’s father is explaining to her what makes a superior person. In his mind a superior person is someone who does not need to see beauty to appreciate it, is self-reliant, silent, and restrained. Her father seems to be expressing admiration for these superior people. He must view himself as superior, and wishes the same for his daughter. The advice must have made an impact on Moore because she can recall the exchange with such reverence. It is because of this reverence, that readers can trust Moore and trust that her father’s advice is true. Because the poem is a dialogue, it reads differently than any other poem would. The poem reads like a preface to an autobiography, or like a formal conversation between close friends. It is hard to tell the tone of the poem because most the words are not the poet’s own. Readers have a hard time distinguishing whether or not Moore was appreciative, indifferent, or appalled by her father’s advice; Moore’s voice is almost nonexistent in the poem, and there are no obvious or even subtle ways to see what she is

Poetry is considered to be a representational text in which one explores ideas by using symbols. Poetry can be interpreted many different ways and is even harder to interpret when the original author has come and gone. Poetry is an incredible form of literature because the way it has the ability to use the reader as part of its own power. In other words, poetry uses the feelings and past experiences of the reader to interpret things differently from one to another, sometimes not even by choice of the author. Two famous poets come to mind to anybody who has ever been in an English class, Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings. Both of these poets have had numerous famous pieces due to the fact that they both

In The Other Wes Moore, the author expresses the striking similarities between him and another man with the same name. The two men are so similar, in fact, that there are very few elements of their lives that set them apart, such as their family histories and personal choices. In writing his book, the author has several target audiences in mind, from young black men to young adults pursuing higher education and people in positions of power. Despite his multiple target audiences, the author has one overall purpose for his book: to show what happens when a person full of potential gives up hope. The story also goes further, showing the importance of both family history and personal choice in the shaping of a person’s future.

Have you ever wondered how your roots effect how your life turns out? The three main roots of life consists of education, poverty, and community. Each one of these things can have a direct correlation with your life. In the book, The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore, there are two different Wes Moores who have some issues with their roots. Neither one of them had a perfect life, but the author Wes had a little bit easier of a time. The author Wes lived in Maryland for a period of time before him and his mother moved to the Bronx. Wes’s father died when he was young because the doctors refused to treat him properly and they wound up misdiagnosing him. Wes went to a private school when they moved and would wind up going to military school,

Mark Twain once said, “When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.” In Wes Moore’s nonfiction novel The Other Wes Moore, the author starts life in an intense Baltimore neighborhood where gangs, shootings, robberies, and drug trafficking are normal, everyday occurrences. Despite all of these negative influences, Wes winds up being a Rhodes Scholar (the most prestigious academic award in the United States), a successful military veteran, businessman, White House Fellow, and an inspiration to many. The other Wes Moore ends up in the same neighborhood in Baltimore, but is sentenced for life in jail for the involvement in a robbery where a security guard was shot and killed. Eventually, it came down to the support that the

Billy Collins, born and raised in Manhattan, New York, is one of America’s most successful poets. Known for very famous poems such as “The Art of Drowning” and “Introduction to Poetry,” Billy Collins has succeeded in the department of English Literature for much of his life. With a bachelors degree from the College of Holy Cross and a Masters and PHD from the University of California, Riverside, Billy Collins went on to become a college English professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. He is and for a long time has been a strong advocate for encouraging young people to get into poetry and even created the program “Poetry 180” where he made a collection of 180 poems for schools to read one poem every school day. Setting him apart from the average poet, Collins received the utmost honor from the Library of Congress when he was declared the U.S. poet Laureate in 2001, serving for two years. Following the September 11th terror attacks, Collins wrote and read a poem entitled “The Names” that was dedicated to the victims. Unlike many poets who write extremely emotional poems, drawing from their traumatic backgrounds, Collins keeps it simple and rights about relatable, average, middle class lifestyle topics; both of his poems Introduction to Poetry and Embrace are emblematic of that.

"We sometimes underestimated the influence of the little things" (Charles W. Chestnutt). This quote tells a little bit of how little decision can be big decisions or is it the opposite. The book The Other Wes More by Wes Moore tells the lives of two people both named Wes Moore. One Wes is living a life of crime and the other Wes is living a life of military school. The two Wes grew up near each other about the same time in the 70's or 80's. The author Wes visited the other Wes in jail to make this novel about both of there lives and discussed what made there lives different. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explores the ideas of decisions to develop the theme even small decisions or ones that seem small a person makes each day can affect a persons future in a negative or positive way.

Boom! Imagine, in the blink of an eye, everything in your world has fallen apart. Your child’s soul is sucked out of her body by a stranger your child has never met before. Imagine your child making world news and being put in history books because of the evil negligence of another fellow American. This reality was true for the families of the victims in the Ballad of Birmingham poem.

I believe Moore's stance on poetry is that she dislikes certain aspects while still maintaining a genuine love for it, as a whole. The author clearly feels that poetry is "important" and "useful", and she thinks that the reason many modern people dislike poetry is because "we do not admire what we cannot

Thoreau once said, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This is the basis of Creeley's poetry and parts of his life. He is well known for teaching with the Black Mountain Poets in North Carolina and leading a poetic style that focuses on the minimization of words that provides a larger effect for the reader. The simplicity also leads to a very open window to his own feelings without the poetic labyrinth of rhyme and meter. Creeley’s poems fully encompass human strife and the pondering question of how it should be solved, which relates to his life as it relates to the twentieth century in areas such as wartime strife, political ideology and lessons in life.

Poetry like so many other things in life is complicated and easily misunderstood, similar to the poem entitled “Poetry” by Marianne Moore. Through her unique way of writing Moore uses literary devices imagery and personification to make the readers question why it is she has come to “dislike”(line 1) poetry. In particular, her word choice leaves a lot of room to wonder exactly why she has chosen to write it this way. A main theme that is represented in this poem is conformity and whether or not it is something to be followed.

The two main views of metaphysical poetry, as composed by poets A.E. Housman and T.S. Eliot, are vastly different. Eliot’s view of metaphysical poetry is a very positive and respectful one. He admires the uniqueness of the metaphysical poets when he describes them as “reflective poets” as opposed to merely intellectual ones. Eliot says they have the ability to “feel their thought as immediately as the odor of a rose,” compared to the strictly thought-driven traditional poetry of lyrical poets. Housman’s view is significantly more harsh and critical. In reference to metaphysical poetry, he says that “poetry, as a label for this particular commodity, is not appropriate.” According to Housman,