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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A PRIZE BIRD, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You suit me well, for you can make me laugh Last Line: Your brazen claws are staunch against defeat. Variant Title(s): To Bernard Shaw: A Prize Bird Subject(s): Birds; Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) | |||
YOU suit me well; for you can make me laugh, Nor are you blinded by the chaff That every wind sends spinning from the rick. You know to think, and what you think you speak With much of Samson's pride and bleak Finality; and none dare bid you stop. Pride sits you well, so strut, colossal bird. No barnyard makes you look absurd; Your brazen claws are staunch against defeat. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY FOR G.B. SHAW by JOHN CIARDI 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 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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