ENGLISH 45C Lecture 16: 10/19 Marianne Moore
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Will spend next 3 classes on modernist american poetry. Eliot was technically modernist/american, but strange figure - was living in engl, more interested in mind of eur, becomes br citizen; straddles canonical boundary. One of things modern lit has to deal w/ is the relation between the self and a world that"s so rapidly changing. Scale of something like wwi has never been seen; shift in all areas of existence w/ Her narrative might not be able to solve it, but tunnels around it w/ Modernist art also understood as a breaking of traditional forms. Ezra pound: make it new! (ironically, quoting confucius) But eliot does this by returning over and over again to the past. Marianne moore takes up a lot of the same qs as other modernists, but in a different way. Born in st. louis, lived most of her life in nyc. Known for remarkably descriptv poems, fine detail; also for poems on animals.
