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Read the excerpt from "Poetry."


nor is it valid

to discriminate against "business documents and


school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must make

a distinction

however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the

result is not poetry,

nor till the poets among us can be

"literalists of

the imagination"—above

insolence and triviality and can present


for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them,"

shall we have

it.


What theme does this excerpt express?

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Joanaveil

i believe more of a mysterious tone but im not for sure

In “Poetry” Marianne Moore wanted to show how much she dislikes the poetry based in beauty archetypes, in this excerpt we can see that Moore thinks that poetry is a place for the genuine and that “when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry” when the focus is lost the outcome is not poetry.

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