A Comparison and Contrast Between the Two Poems, Poetry and Modern Poetry

“I, too, dislike it: There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.” Poetry has been around for a long time. As the years go by poetry adapts to the time period. However, the authors have different views. Majority of them will read and enjoy all types of poem, but they have their own opinions. The new, has to be truly unique to the author and to the time period. Shakespeare still had plays that we study, but it is hard to comprehend the message behind the words. Worlds change and the literature's change with the trends. The important question is how it should change. During each time period there are people that publish their opinions, but different people have different ideas. Within Poetry and Of Modern Poetry shows the similarities and differences between the two authors, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore through three ways: is of the mind, it has to be genuine and it has to be unique to the people writing it.

Stevens talks about how it has to be of the mind or it have to be living and changing. Poetry will never be one thing. It is about seeing the world around them and putting the vision into words. The words are meant to describe and analyze the world. “It is reassuring to write about poetry that can dissolve the many doubts of our modern world. When the soul wonders if this planet is worth the trouble, poetry can fine tune nature's music.” (Zapata) Stevens talks about how the world is always changing and poetry has to change with it. Poetry is based off the world and the experiences people face in the world. Fitting its surroundings and the people is what makes a poem modern and something people can relate to. Poems that can be related to are the poems that people will remember. Relatable poems are the th...

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... take about it being unique to the time. Either way poems have to adapt and become original in all that people end up doing.

Works Cited

Arnold, Mathew. The Study of Poetry. N.p.: n.p., 1995. Print. Describes all the good things that come from poetry.

Osborn, Andres. "Habits of Thought, Inhabitings of Possibility: An Interview with John Koether." Southwest Review (2007): n. pag. Print. Talks about the poetry and the writer Wallace Stevens,

Rye, Jane. "The Maiden Aunt of Modernism." Spectator 7 Dec. 2013: n. pag. Print. All about what Moore does and how she writes.

Sehgal, Parul. "Less Is Moore." Artforum International 20.3 (2013): n. pag. Print. Discusses Moore and how she wrote.

Zapata, Miguel-Angel. "The Long Alley: Reading American Poetry in Colorado Springs." America and the Spanish-Speaking World (1997): n. pag. Print. Describes Wallace Stevens.