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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE', by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perceiving that in the masked ball Last Line: To smother us with fresh air. Subject(s): Healing; Cures | |||
PERCEIVING that in the masked ball attitude, there is a hollowness that beauty's light momentum can't redeem, since disproportionate satisfaction anywhere lacks a proportionate air, he let us know without offense by his hands' denunciatory upheaval, that he despised the fashion of curing us with an ape—making it his care to smother us with fresh air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONE VOLUME MISSING by RITA DOVE READING HOLDERLIN ON THE PATIO WITH THE AID OF A DICTIONARY by RITA DOVE BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ VACATION: CALIFORNIA COAST by ALBERT GOLDBARTH FOR MY DAUGHTER by DAVID IGNATOW FOR MY MOTHER ILL by DAVID IGNATOW WITH THE DOOR OPEN by DAVID IGNATOW JERUSALEM (1) by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE |
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