Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With webs of cool Last Line: In folly's catalogue, distressful lunatic? Subject(s): Nature | ||||||||
WITH webs of cool Chain mail and his stout heart, is not the gander Mocked, and ignorantly designated yet, To play the fool? "Egyptian vultures clean as cherubim, All ivory and jet," are they most foul? And nature's child, That most precocious water bird, the loonwhy Is he foremost in the madman's alphabet; Why is he styled In folly's catalogue, distressful lunatic? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE |
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