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Marianne Moore. Born near St. Louis, Missouri, on November 15, 1887, Marianne Moore was raised in the home of her grandfather, a Presbyterian pastor. After her grandfather’s death, in 1894, Moore and her family stayed with other relatives, and in 1896 they moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She attended Bryn Mawr College and received her BA in ...
Marianne Moore . Silence My father used to say, 1 "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave 3. or the glass flowers at Harvard. Self-reliant like the cat— that takes its prey to privacy, the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth— they sometimes enjoy solitude, and can be robbed of speech
13 mag 2011 · Marianne Moore 1887 (Kirkwood) – 1972 (New York City) nor the glass flowers at Harvard. by speech which has delighted them. not in silence, but restraint." Nor was he insincere in saying, "`Make my house your inn'." Inns are not residences.
Powered by LitCharts content and AI. "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. Only when poets become "literalists of the imagination"—use ...
Poetry. Marianne Moore. 1887 –. 1972. I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in. it after all, a place for the genuine. Hands that can grasp, eyes. that can dilate, hair that can rise.
13 mar 2019 · Marianne Moore. Silence. or the glass flowers at Harvard. by speech which has delighted them. not silence, but restraint». Nor was he insincere in saying, «Make my house your inn». Inns are not residences. Selected Poems, Macmillan, New York, 1935. Silenzio.
2 set 2011 · Many an interpretation of “Silence” has pointed to Moore’s father as the source of the quotation at the beginning of the poem—despite the note that has accompanied the poem since Observations (1924). In the note, “Miss A. M. Homans” is the author, quoting her father. Not falling into the “father” trap, Jeanne Heuving ( Omissions ...
