Marianne Moore

Modernist period in American literature history, many brilliant authors expressed their thoughts and feelings through their works. Two of the authors we observed in class that I found to be the most interesting were Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and Marianne Moore. These two poets had many similar modernist ideas that they expressed in their works. They are both admired for abolishing some of the feminine traits of writing poetry during this era, ad proving that women were just as equal as men. Overall

Marianne Moore’s nature and artistic background contribute to her modernist style and is prominent in her poem “The Fish.” Marianne Moore wrote in the 1930’s, a decade of change. Moore is characterized as a writer who uses overall nature, art, life, modesty, and humor. Her writing is recognized by its descriptions, and observations of people, places, animals, and art. Her poems reflect the relationship between common and uncommon (“Marianne Moore” Poetry Foundation). Marianne Moore’s biographical

focus my discussion board posting on Marianne Moore. Marianne was known as a dedicated baseball fan and a poet. An interesting fact about Marianne is she got to throw out the first ball in 1968 at Yankee Stadium in New York. Her poetry consisted of describing exotic animals and plants, steamrollers, and more. Marianne won many awards because of her unique style described as “The World’s Greatest Living Observer.” She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909. Marianne taught at a United States government

infection in a chameleon. Most chameleons get stressed when they see their own kind. The glass can reflect the chameleons image, which may stress it out and possibly cause it to attack its own reflection which could severely Marriane Moore Moore s Fab Five The poet Marianne Moore wrote many fantastic poems during her life. The five most intriguing and interesting poems that I enjoyed will be broken down

Along with the National geographic society being founded, 1888 was also the year Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This soon to be Imagist writer was known mainly for her poems. What differentiated her from most other Imagists at the time was her identity a female and bisexual which both at the time were severely oppressed. Along with the political stance, Hilda Doolittle also faced struggles growing up due to being only daughter in her family and her father being a science professor

The poem “Silence” by Marianne Moore uses abstract diction to describe the character of superior people. Throughout the poem, a person is recollecting the words once used by their father to describe the character of superior people. Superior people, according to the father, are “Self-reliant like the cat--- / that takes its prey to privacy,” (5-6). They do not parade their business around for all to see. “They sometimes enjoy solitude,” (8), meaning they know the importance of time alone. This verse

Marianne Moore, “Poetry” is dated 1921, but the poem has a view point that leaves too many variables for a reader to gain any ground of understanding. It was very confusing to try to figure out the port was trying to express through this poem. This was a very interesting poem, because the poet is expressing her feeling on what real poetry is. On one hand, she dislikes the view of point of poetry then on the other hand she seems to declare its location as something that is original or authentic

that happen in a life can be just as valuable as a material object. “' Moore's poetry does not invite biographical interpretation', Leavell mines the early poems for references to events in the poet's life and evidence of 'profound feelings' that Moore herself revealed to no one.” (Rye) Events are a good to draw on. It shows what lead up to the opinions of the author. However, the one thing she never tried was to incorporate her

1. Introduction W.H Auden famously wrote “poetry makes nothing happen.” Do you think this accurately describes the political and social place of poetry in the twentieth century and/or the twenty first century? Explain why you agree or disagree in the case of your chosen poet, justifying your answer with close reference to your poet’s work and its reception and interpretation. This essay examines the effects that poetry has on society, both socially and politically. Poetry has been around for centuries

can have the opposite effect on a reader, and completely turn them away from poetry all together. Twenty century poet, Marianne Moore, challenges this response to poetry in her poem “Poetry”. Moore discusses the ideas of bad poetry and its conciscuses with distinctive word choice, and a descending stepped like structure to create a excellent poem herself. To understand Moores interpretation of what bad poetry is one needs to look at how she presents