Marianne Moore and Harry

Abstract

Introduction:  "Rosie?"  "Yes...?"  "Ummm.  How's your poetry?"  "Fine, thank you, and yours?"  "Stop!  Seriously now; can you help me with a poem tonight?  I thought it would be easy to write a couple of pages about a poem and how it relates to chapter 17 of Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery, but I am finding it very difficult.  It wouldn't be too hard just to translate the poem into prose to show that I understand the images and metaphors, but somehow that seems no longer appropriate."