Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” is written in defense of poetry. In the excerpts, which lines or phrases reflect Moore’s opinion of wh
at good poetry should be? A) . . . to discriminate against "business documents and
school-books"; all these phenomena are important. B) 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
C) insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, D) "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
E) all its rawness and
F) that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
The best lines for this question would be the following:
<span>A) . . . to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important.
B) 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.
These lines represent of the quality of how poetry should be.</span>
