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Marianne Moore's Poetry
In the poem “Poetry” by Marianne Moore, Moore, who can be presumed as the speaker, states her ‘dislike’ for poetry in the first sentence “I, too, dislike it…”, though it is very clear that the poet does not dislike poems, but rather poems that are not understandable nor personal, referring to the first and second lines of stanza one “ …there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.”. Fiddle can be seen as the inability to find the meaning of a poem without fidgeting with the thought process of authors. Further more Moore presents the belief that having a good poem is derived from having a personal background in the fifth stanza, line twenty three “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,”. The phrase shows that even with figurative

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