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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A STEAM ROLLER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The illustration
Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; Bugs
First Line: The illustration
Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; Bugs
THE illustration
is nothing to you without the application.
You lack half wit. You crush all the particles down
into close conformity, and then walk back and forth
on them.
Sparkling chips of rock
are crushed down to the level of the parent block.
Were not "impersonal judgment in æsthetic
matters, a metaphysical impossibility," you
might fairly achieve
it. As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive
of one's attending upon you, but to question
the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
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