Mar 10, 2020 · “Marriage” is a 1923 modernist poem by Marianne Moore that’s considered one of her most fascinating, yet challenging works. Requiring a great deal of insight to fully appreciate, it’s presented here in full, with links to two excellent and thorough analyses.

Moore's unique perspective contrasts with traditional romantic views of marriage, challenging its exclusivity and questioning its benefits. The poem's experimental style and fragmented structure reflect the complex and ambivalent nature of marriage, leaving readers to …

A difficult but immensely fascinating poem, “Marriage” demands a lengthy and thorough discussion of the many allusions and quotes Moore used in order to form her work. We will move in a linear fashion through the poem and identify these sources along with the larger themes and possible meanings.

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Marianne Moore’s 1923 poem Marriage is a landmark work of High Modernism and one of her most masterful and difficult poems. Characteristically, Moore downplayed its significance, describing it...

‘Marriage’. Published in 1923, a year after Eliot’s The Waste Land, ‘Marriage’ is a long(ish) poem by one of American modernism’s greatest poets. And like The Waste Land, Moore’s poem is allusive, taking in Shakespeare and the Bible as the poet explores the obligations and meaning of marriage (Moore herself never married). The ...

“It clothes me with a shirt of fire.” if he cries out, it will not understand.” unfathered by a woman. Unhelpful Hymen! its snake and the potent apple. a duty or as merely recreation. by the tooth of disputation.” not of bondage. with a good day and bad.” “When do we feed?” and sometimes one is made to feel it. with hair like a shaving—brush?

Unnerved by the nightingale and dazzled by the apple, impelled by "the illusion of a fire effectual to extinguish fire," compared with which the shining of the earth is but deformity -- a fire "as high as deep as bright as broad as long as life itself," he stumbles over marriage, "a very trivial object indeed" to have destroyed the attitude in ...

Marriage by Marianne Moore - This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind

" Unnerved by the nightingale and dazzled by the apple, impelled by "the illusion of a fire effectual to extinguish fire," compared with which the shining of the earth is but deformity -- a fire "as high as deep as bright as broad as long as life itself," he stumbles over marriage, "a very trivial object indeed" to have destroyed the attitude ...