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Love-Hate Relationship With Poetry In Marianne Moore's Poetry

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Marianne Moore expresses her love-hate relationship with poetry in her poem “Poetry”. She dislikes most poetry because poets tend to devote unnecessary thoughts on insignificant ideas and topics. On the other hand, the speaker appreciates the rawness and not necessarily the genuine things in it but rather the effects it may have if and when you come across it. She uses imagery and form to create a tone that switches emotion. The speaker creates images to distract her readers, literally. She does this to show that “we/do not admire/what we cannot understand” (13-15). She is bothered that some poets lose their reader by an abundance of petty details. To connect to her point, the speaker presents her readers with an image of a bat “holding on
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