‘Poetry’ by Marianne Moore Analysis Essay

In the poem, Moore dissects the meaning and understanding of poetry. She tries to make a point of the vastness and usefulness of poetry to a person. There is the mention that most commonwealth do non take the time to value something of they do not understand it. From research on this poet I have discovered that she has a unique writing style that she is referencing in the poem. There are a few images in her poem like when she writes, Hands that can grasp, look that can dilate, hair that can rise Another example of tomography is, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a industrious wolf under a tree There are excessively other poetic elements in this poem as well as images.This poem really contains the main theme of the nature of people. She describes a stereotypical view that people do not take the time to appreciate and understand things. The poem h singlestly causes me a lot of confusion, which is why I picked it. I do not know how to get a serious understanding of anything in this poem, especially things such as themes and allusions so I do not really have anything to say about every of those things so I am going to move on.There is one piece of irony I found in this poem. Her first line, I too dislike it there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle, is an example of irony in her poem. For she is a poet sharing her contradict opinion of poetry, I am assuming.The tone of this poem seems to be just about melancholy for most of it.