Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIOGENES, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day's calumnies, / midnight's translucencies Last Line: Be thanked for it? Subject(s): Diogenes | ||||||||
Day's calumnies, Midnight's translucencies, Pride's open book Of closed humilities With its inflated look; Shall contrarieties As feasible as these Confound my wit? Is Persian cloth One thread with Persian sloth? Is gold dust bran? Though spotted Ashtaroth Is not a Puritan, Must every gorgeous moth Be calico, and Thoth Be thanked for it? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN PRAISE OF WINE by ANONYMOUS THE TOMB OF DIOGENES by ANONYMOUS I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE PEDANTIC LITERALIST by MARIANNE MOORE TO AN INTRA-MURAL RAT by MARIANNE MOORE NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE' by MARIANNE MOORE A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC by MARIANNE MOORE |
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