Analysis Of Poetry By Marianne Moore Poetry - 721 Words

Poetry has been an form of lyrical expression for centuries. Poems have a way of invoking a multitude of emotions in readers. Generally, if a poem is well received by the reader/readers, it can give them a sense of intense importance or emotional attachment to the poem. However, bad poetry 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 â€Å"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†¦show more content†¦The narrator then goes on to comparing the attempt to understanding these imitative poetry to animals and how its just like trying to understand some of the nonsensical nature of animals. It dumbs one down to t he level of idiocy like a â€Å"a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless/ wolf under/ a tree, the immovable critic twinkling his skin like a horse/ that feels a flea,† it’s funny. Next, at the end of the third stanza and beginning of the fourth, the narrator quotes a russian write, Leo Tolstoy, whom states that poetry must have verses and that free verse is not poetry. Therefore, the narrator claims â€Å"nor is it valid/ to discriminate against â€Å"business documents and/ school-books†; all these phenomena are important. One must/ make a distinction/ however: when dragged into prominence by half poets,/the result is not poetry,† essentially contradicting Leo Tolstoy’s view on what poetry, and that just because one is famous does not make them a poet. The narrator then goes on to reinforce this idea more. Then, in the finally stanza the narrator claims that to write good poetry that isnt mindless interpretations or claims to be poetry just because of the author by saying it must have imagination and realness, â€Å"imaginary gardens with real toads in them,/shall we have/it.† The narrator states that if the poem is presented in all of its rawness then the reader will genuinely be interested in the poem. In conclusion, Moore states that as long as a poem is imaginative, and rawShow MoreRelatedImagism in Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore1601 Words   |  7 PagesEzra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore share? A) Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore were all modernist poets. Modernist poetry deals with experiment and innovation. All three were imagists, though at a later stage, William Carlos Williams started disagreeing with Ezra Pound. 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