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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PEDANTIC LITERALIST, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prince rupert's drop, paper muslin ghost Last Line: Immutable production. | |||
PRINCE RUPERT'S drop, paper muslin ghost, White torch—"with power to say unkind Things with kindness, and the most Irritating things in the midst of love and Tears," you invite destruction. You are like the meditative man With the perfunctory heart; its Carved cordiality ran To and fro at first like an inlaid and royal Immutable production; Then afterward "neglected to be Painful, deluding him with Loitering formality," "Doing its duty as if it did it not," Presenting an obstruction To the motive that it served. What stood Erect in you has withered. A Little "palm tree of turned wood" Informs your once spontaneous core in its Immutable production. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...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 APPELLATE JURISDICTION by MARIANNE MOORE COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER by MARIANNE MOORE DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT by MARIANNE MOORE |
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