Adapting To Understand The Poem By Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore wasn't just a modernist poet, she was also a sports fan. Although the poem took a couple times of me reading to finally understand the poem. It seems like Moore wasn't at the game by they would she used. She talked about the "Owlman watching from the press box" which was giving us the assumption that she could be listening to it on the radio. Since Moore can't see the game herself, she has to go off of the commentator and try to visualize what is happening. The exact same thing happens when we have to read it ourselves, we have rely on Moore to give the details us. This is one of the reasons I believe make the poems so interesting to read. We get to hear the facts but we also get to imagine the rest. The first few attempts were

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