This author offered a cheeky defense of the "plain American which cats and dogs can read" in a poem titled "England."
A long poem by this author contains a conversation in which a woman says "I should like to be alone," and a man replies "why not be alone together?" This author offered a cheeky defense of the "plain American which cats and dogs can read" in a poem titled "England." This author wrote of "the white volcano with no weather side; lightning flashing at its base," in a poem inspired by a trip to Mount Rainier. This author transformed Hart Crane's "The Wine Menagerie" into unrecognizable free verse, and outright rejected his "At Melville's Tomb," as editor-in-chief of The (*) Dial. This author lists a "tireless wolf under a tree" and "the immovable critic twinkling his skin like a horse that feels a flea" as examples of things we do not admire because we do not understand them, in a poem that balks at the expectation that "literalists of the imagination" be asked to present "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." In that most famous poem of hers, she states "I, too, dislike it." For 10 points, name this Modernist poet of "An Octopus" and "Poetry."
A long poem by this author contains a conversation in which a woman says "I should like to be alone," and a man replies "why not be alone together?"
Marianne Moore