"Poetry", is one of Marianne Moore's most famous poems. In it Moore starts out, "I too, dislike it." referring to poetry. However, this does not mean that Moore believed in practicing her poetry half-seriously. She simply believed that in order to create great poetry one would enjoy reading the work spiritually and physically. Moore has had several incarnations of the poem "Poetry", including one as short as four lines and one as long as thirty-eight lines. The four-line version was so brief that it allowed for a misinterpretation. However, the longer version defines the poem with her famous phrase, "imaginary garden with real toads in them."

Moore's poem, "Poetry", is a concrete poem in which Moore's describes how when poetry is to abstract, it becomes "self-destructive". This is because the reader has to analyze the poem so much they lose the experience of reading and enjoying it. Her poetry is vivid and gives the reader a sense of experiencing the topic

In another part of the poem she uses a quote out of the book Ideas of Good and Evil, where the author states "too literal realist of imagination, as others are of nature." Moore uses in her poem, "literalist of the imagination.", which implies on using the imagination exactly as it appears in the mind of the artist, or poet. The imagination works to help the poet work out his arguments as to what they should interpret as real and what they should leave to the imagination. Moore wanted poetry to make direct connections to the culture and continue to be genuine but at the same time not to resist writing about culture with abstraction of the imaginary.

A major part in the poem is when Moore says "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." This is a very interesting sentence that Moore was considering taking out at first publications. Moore decided to leave it in because she felt it explained the force of imagination necessary for poets to avoid uselessness. Poets, in order to make a good piece, need to be able to create a wo

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