Marianne Moore
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Marianne Moore is a rare combination of 'poet's poet' and advice-giving moralist. Moore was always admired by a select group of modern poets, but she was often misunderstood and unintelligible to the average reader. Critics frequently believed that Moore's poetry dealt with inconsequential topics. However, as was often the situation, many critics did not understand her poetry either. There is much more philosophy in Moore's poetry than many of her critics ever imagined. In fact, it would be difficult to appreciate Moore's poetry without comprehending its philosophical depths and epistemological approaches. Concerning Moore's prosody, her poetry is neither free verse nor accented rhythms. Her model is French. The words in Moore's poems are neither accented nor stressed, nor do they metrically rhyme. Instead, the pattern of syllables per line in each stanza is usually repeated in the next stanza. Consequently, the unaccented syllabication produces a conversational effect. Ottone M. Riccio points out: "Syllabics is the technique used in early Hebrew poetry, in Oriental forms, in Welsh forms, and in some French poetry. Currently it enjoys the support of many poets writing in English. Marianne Moore was strongly identified with it" (94). Exactly how Moore uses syllabics will be seen in two of her poems: "The Student" and "To a Steam Roller." This poem is about a student, who often seems to be untouched by the world, not because he
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onstructing experience as experience arrives. Thus, in lines 5-17: "We/incline to feel, here,/that although it may be necessary/to know fifteen languages,/one degree is not too much. With us, a/school--like the singing tree of which/the leaves were mouths that sang in concert--/in both a tree of knowledge/and of liberty,--/seen in the unanimity of college/mottoes, lux et veritas,/Christo et ecclesiae, sapiet/felici." The last phrase: 'The wise are fortunate' reflects the importance of knowledge that is concerned with 'light and truth.'
In a manner similar to T. S. Eliot, Moore utilizes phrases from other scholarly works for the purpose of communicating her meaning and making a statement about her concerns. The quoted phrases tend to instantly communicate a message to the reader. This is a succinct method of delivering a definite message that transcends a multitude of words. T. S. Eliot had a term for this phenomenon: "objective correlative.' This term describes a pattern of objects, actions, events, or expressions that can effectively function to generate in the reader an emotional reaction without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion. This approach is an impersonal or objective means of communicating f
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