Marriane Moore

Moore’s Fab Five The poet Marianne Moore wrote many fantastic poems during her life. The five most intriguing and interesting poems that I enjoyed will be broken down and explanations as to why they caught my attention will be given. The five poems are The Student, The Monkeys, The Sycamore, The Wood-Weasel, and To a Chameleon. The over riding theme in most of her poems is animals. In To a Chameleon she focuses her …

…as an animal, it is something everybody has seen before and can relate to the emotions portrayed. This is just one of the many techniques Marianne Moore uses that intrigues me. The five poems I selected were concerning simple topics and were simple poems. Yet, Moore used this to her advantage. She painted a picture of these animals through the simple, very descriptive language. It is for that reason that I enjoyed Moore’s poetry.