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T S Eliot Quot And Quot
2,704 wordsElaine Oswald and Robert L. Gale She was born Marianne Craig Moore in Kirkland, Missouri, the daughter of John Milton Moore, a construction engineer and inventor, and Mary Warner. Moore had an older brother, John Warner Moore. She never met her father; before her birth his invention of a smokeless furnace failed, and he had a nervous and mental breakdown and was hospitalized in Massachusetts. Moores mother became a housekeeper for John Riddle Warner, her father, an, affectionate, well-read Presb...
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Belle Dame Sans Merci Quot Quot
5,864 wordsElizabeth H. Davis In nearly all transformations of syllabics, deletion disturbs the stanzas into free verse. That process is physically evident in typescripts of " To a Snail" and " A Grave. " pivotal typescript / manuscript of " A Grave" also shows the close relationship between excision and free verse (Rosenbach I: 02: 14). The key syllabic draft, itself a revision, begins the same way the final draft does? " Man looking into the sea. " Four types of mar...
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9,029 words1922, On " An Octopus" In 1922, Marianne Moore made the first of two trips to Bremerton, Washington, for long summer visits with her brother. On the first trip, the family traveled up to Paradise Park on Mount Rainier for an overnight stay. Moore photographed the dramatic Nisqually Glacier and took close-ups of alpine flowers. She and her brother joined a hiking party and climbed up to the ice caves, the greatest distance visitors can reach without full climbing gear. Back in New York,...
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Quot Bird Witted Quot Quot Bird Witted Moore
1,047 wordsIt On " Bird-Witted" Margaret Holly It is against this backdrop of ambiguous beauty that Moore constructs her far more frequent positive portraits of feminine figures. One of the strongest of these is, not surprisingly, the mothers, almost all of them in animal form, who appear in Moores poems of the thirties and forties after her early interest in the male artists as subjects had abated. Moore lived with her mother all her life until Mrs. Moores death in 1947, and this was a mother of...
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8,487 wordsRobert Pinsky In Elizabeth Bishops bizarre, sly, deceptively plainspoken late poem " Crusoe in England, " the famous solitary looks back on his life near its end, recalling his isolation and rescue in ways deeper and more unsettling than Defoe could have dreamed. After painting the hallucinatory, vivid island, with hissing volcanoes and hissing giant turtles an unforgettable terrain Bishops Crusoe muses on the dried-out, wan relics of a life. From The New Republic (197 Joanne Feet Dieh...
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Quot Quot Elizabeth Bishop
7,416 wordsLee Edelman Commentaries on " In the Waiting Room" the to agree that the poem presents a young girls moment of awakening to the separations and the bonds among human beings, to the forces that shape individual identity through the interrelated recognitions of community and isolation. [... ] What, one might ask, is so strange about critical agreement on the literal events that take place within the poem? One response to such a question might begin by observing that the text itself seems...
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Quot Quot Marianne Moore
5,306 wordsPamela White Has " No Swan So Fine" asserts that there is no live swan, " no swan, / with swart blind look askance / and gondolier ing legs, so fine" as the china one among its finely sculptured and polished flowers in the Louis XV candelabrum. The last half-line of the poem reads, simply and abruptly, " The king is dead. " A way of life that went along with the kings life is also dead. The swan is alive only insofar as art is, but dead in its extravagant finality o...
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Marianne Moore Miss Moore
4,483 wordsMaurice J. Osullivan, Jr. The Irish-American response to its Irish heritage has long been an intense, and at times bellicose, pride in Irelands capacity not only to endure but to impose significant aspects of its highly sophisticated culture on Americas eclectic society, mixed, paradoxically, with a quiet bewilderment at the unwillingness of the Irish to accept the kinds of pragmatic compromises that have characterized American history. Complicating most attempts at defining the ambivalence in t...
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9,055 wordsPamela White Hadas A poem that deserves special attention as an expression of style and being is " The Pangolin. " The pangolin is " the night miniature artist engineer, " " Leonardo Da Vinci's replica. " The invocation of Leonardo is important in terms of Marianne Moores work in general. Toward the end of her career she devoted two poems to Leonardo one a description of his picture of St. Jerome and the lion, which asserts the necessity of communion between beast a...
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3,220 wordsJeanne Having If " Bird-Witted" depends for its meaning on a conventional narrative sequence and the contrast between the quick instinctive bird and the slow, intellectual cat, " The Paper Nautilus" is unified through its central symbol, a chambered nautilus shell, and an opposition between inner and outer. The poem, in fact, was written as a gift to Elizabeth Bishop in return for her gift to Moore of an actual nautilus shell. Moore herself seems to have had mothering as well...
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