Marianne Moore was a small town girl, born around St. Louis Missouri. She moved around alot in her life. When Marianne Moore was reaching adolescence, her father left her and her mother, leaving them with no money to keep their house. So they had to move to her grandfather's house and stay there until his death. Which was on 1894. They just moved from one relative to another until the big move to carlisle, PA.
Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following graduation, Moore studied typing at Carlisle Commercial College. And from 1911 to 1915 she was employed as a school teacher at the Carlisle Indian school. (“Poets.org”).
Moore had many careers throughout her life. Her mother and her moved to New york City, after Carlisle Indian school, where she then became an assistant at the New York Public Library. At the time there were lots of known poets roaming the streets of Broadway, and so Marianne Moore got a chance to meet a few of them, like William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. She became friends and mentors to a lot of them.
She served as acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929. Along with the work of such other members of the Imagist movement as …show more content…
For example in the short poem, “poetry”, she starts the poem by saying she dislikes poetry, but continues to saying “reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine”(poets.org). So it’s clear by the second verse that we shouldn’t take the first line literally. She goes on to talk about that us humans or many of us at-least, “that we do not admire what we do not understand”. And Moore points out “ half poets”, their poems are not poems. She’s saying if you want to be a poet or read poetry, you have to seek 2 things “Poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine.”
Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following graduation, Moore studied typing at Carlisle Commercial College. And from 1911 to 1915 she was employed as a school teacher at the Carlisle Indian school. (“Poets.org”).
Moore had many careers throughout her life. Her mother and her moved to New york City, after Carlisle Indian school, where she then became an assistant at the New York Public Library. At the time there were lots of known poets roaming the streets of Broadway, and so Marianne Moore got a chance to meet a few of them, like William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. She became friends and mentors to a lot of them.
She served as acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929. Along with the work of such other members of the Imagist movement as …show more content…
For example in the short poem, “poetry”, she starts the poem by saying she dislikes poetry, but continues to saying “reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine”(poets.org). So it’s clear by the second verse that we shouldn’t take the first line literally. She goes on to talk about that us humans or many of us at-least, “that we do not admire what we do not understand”. And Moore points out “ half poets”, their poems are not poems. She’s saying if you want to be a poet or read poetry, you have to seek 2 things “Poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine.”