Marianne Moore

Today I would like to talk about Marianne Moore's "The Fish". I would first like to start off by saying that I love the fact that she writes about animals. I am a zoology major and it is so nice to read the feelings of what another person sees in an animal or the way that person interprets the animal. The next thing I would like to talk about is the way the Marianne aranges her stanzas. She does not really care about metrical rythm or endstops, but more of what her stanzas physically look like. In this particular poem she creats her stanzas in such a way that they look diagnal. Marianne even cuts words apart, such in stanza 7, just to make all the stanzas appear in this mannar. I really enjoyed reading this poem not only because the content is something that I am so interested in, but the fact that it is a bresh of fresh air to see a poem arranged like this. To see creativity and not just the normal day to day stanza. I am sure that a lot of modernist viewed this as unproffesional or maybe even stupid but I Marianne to be one of the most interesting writers I have seen so far in this book. The similies she uses to describe things and the word choice she uses, paints such a vivid picture in my mind that I almost feel as if I am there with her. "Crabs like green lillies", "submarine toadstools", these are just some of the words that caught my attention and sent me into this setting Moore has created. I feel that Marianne Moore just may have become my new favorite poet.