Question

What is ironic about this excerpt from "Poetry" by Marianne Moore?

Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine

a. The speaker does not change her view of always appreciating poetry.
b. The speaker does not change her view of feeling disdain for poetry.
c. The speaker says she enjoys poetry but then decides that there is no use for it.
d. The speaker says she dislikes poetry but then makes an argument in favor of it.
NextReset

Answer 1

What do you think it is @405489 ?

Answer 2

I can tell you its not a or c.

Answer 3

I keep getting five answers wrong on this stupid test and this is one of them. so i have no clue

Answer 4

I'm almost 100% that it is D.

Answer 5

can you help me with the others?

Answer 6

cool
What element of modernist poetry is evident in this excerpt from the poem, "Poetry" by Marianne Moore?

Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a

high sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. . .

a. There is a strict meter and rhyme.
b.There is an abcb rhyme scheme.
c.The sentences fall across multiple stanzas.
d.The theme of loneliness is obvious.

Answer 7

I think it maybe A but im not too sure.

Answer 8

Which element of modernist poetry is evident in this excerpt from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes?

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

a.The poem uses variations of meter to affect rhyme.
b.The poem’s sentences flow across stanzas.
c.The poem’s stanzas have varying lengths.
d.The poem uses nontraditional syntax and rhyme scheme.