LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Moore’s emotional and aesthetic attachment to England
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Moore’s harsh critique of the carnage of World War I
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Moore’s particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism
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Moore’s interest in England’s civilizing mission in the world
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Poetry, ” by the American modernist poet Marianne Moore, grapples with what makes a poem important or worthwhile-or even a poem at all. Its speaker urges poets to take their craft seriously and not just try to show off or imitate other writers.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Marriage” is a long, complicated collage of statements and quotations regarding the institution of marriage and its problems as well as a critical exploration of gender roles and the relations between men and women.
Detailed explanation-3: -Moore makes use of several literary devices in ‘Poetry’. These include but are not limited to alliteration, caesura, and end-punctuation. Usually, end-punctuation goes unnoticed in a poem. But, when the text is this minimal it means that each choice the poet made is all the more important.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three lines or phrases from poetry which reflects the Moore’s opinion of good poetry are: Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. All its rawness. That which on the other hand is all genuine.