Poetry

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Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri on November 15, 1887 to John Milton Moore and Mary Warner Moore (Gale). As a girl she attended school at Metzger Institute, where her mother taught, and then attended Bryn Mawr College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and histology in 1909 (Gale). She won the National Book Award in 1952, the Pulitzer Prize in 1952, and the Bollingen Prize in 1953 (Marianne Moore).  Modernism has literary pieces that have loosely defined characteristics (Lorcher). Modernism is a reaction against Realism and had an emphasis on teh individual inner being insted of the social being (Worthington). Modernism experiments with language, is a distortion of perception, and is unordered (Worthington). Modernism has a stron reaction against established religious, political, and social views, which breaks tradition (Lorcher). Marianne Moore wrote "Poetry" in a syllabic verse, which means that they follow a certain number of syllables per line. For example, the last lines in "Poetry" have thirteen syllables, "that which is on the other hand . . . genuine, you are interested in poetry" (Moore). Moore was interested in the creative process and the relation between expression and the real things, and she was critical toward her own work (Liukkonen).

“Moore once told an interviewer for the //New York Times:// "Poetry. I, too, dislike it: There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. [But,] if you demand on the one hand / the raw material of poetry in / all its rawness and / that which is on the other hand / genuine, then you are interested in poetry.” Moore continued: "I don't call anything I have ever written poetry. In fact, the only reason I know for calling my work poetry at all is that there is no other category in which to put it. I'm a happy hack as a writer. . . . I never knew anyone with a passion for words who had as much difficulty in saying things as I do. I seldom say them in a manner I like. Each poem I think will be the last. But something always comes up and catches my fancy."” (Marianne Moore). Moore’s mother impacted her writing hugely. Marianne Moore’s mother died in 1947, and she appeared to be her closes friend; therefore, her death affected her deeply (Liukkonen). “//Collected poems// Moore dedicated to her mother. She also kept a notebook of her mother’s sayings, and regarded her as almost a collaborator, especially with the translation of //The Fables of La Fontaine//” (Liukkonen).  Marianne Moore's "Poetry" is similar to E. E. Cummings' "Anyone who lived in a how town" because Moore wrote it in a syabillic form which is similiar to a free verse. E. E. Cummings wrote "Anyone who lived in a how town" in a free verse.

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Liukkonen, Petri. "Marianne (Craig) Moore (1887-1972)." //Books and Writers//. Books and Writers, 2010. Web. 2 May 2010. .

Lorcher, Trent. "Lesson Plans: Modernism in Literature." //Bright Hub //. Bright Hub Inc, 2010. Web. 30 Apr. 2010. < [] >.  "Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972)." //Poetry Foundation//. Poetry Foundation, 2010. Web. 2 May 2010. .

Moore, Marianne. "Poetry." //Poets.org//. Academy of American Poets, 2010. Web. 2 May 2010. .

Worthington, Leslie. "Characteristics of Modernism." //SOCRATES //. Troy University, 8 May 2007. Web. 30 March 2010. < <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|http://socrates.troy.edu/~lworthington/eng2206/mod.htm] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">>.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Write an essay discussing the following points:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Thoroughly show how the work of literature fits the definition of Modernism.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Show how the writer’s life affected his/her work.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Show how the work compares in style, character, theme, etc. to other works by the author __and__ to your other assigned works.

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