A poet and then an editor, Marianne Moore is known as a modernist poet. While working as an assistant at the New York Public Library, in 1921, she regularly met poets such as William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. Here is where she had her earliest impact of writing and prose.
She could convey deep ideas in simple and compact lines making the readers draw meaning and inferences.
What Are Years? -Marianne Moore
What is our innocence,
what is our guilt? All are
naked, none is safe. And whence
is courage: the unanswered question,
the resolute doubt—
dumbly calling, deafly listening—that
in misfortune, even death,
encourages others
and in its defeat, stirs
the soul to be strong? He
sees deep and is glad, who
accedes to mortality
and in his imprisonment, rises
upon himself as
the sea in a chasm, struggling to be
free and unable to be,
in its surrendering
finds its continuing.
The poem seeks to answer questions to the recognition of one’s own reality. The speaker wonders as to the true nature of one’s “soul.”
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