American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1332 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Marianne Moore and "Poetry"
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The idea
Moore's poem "Poetry" opens by saying she too dislikes it, and argues that reading it with a perfect contempt one discovers a place in it for the genuine. She wrote in precise syllabic patterns and quoted prose sources inside her poems, with notes.
In practice
I, too, dislike it.
Where people slip
The dislike is the start of the defence.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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