Question

Which lines or phrases from this excerpt of her poem "Poetry" does Marianne Moore use to show the impact of great poetry? (I put the options in parenthesis.) There's more than one answer.

I, too, dislike it: (there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.)
(Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.)
(Hands that can grasp,) (eyes
that can dilate,) (hair that can rise if it must),
(these things are important not because a)

(high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. . .)

Answer 1

(Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.)

(these things are important not because a)

(high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. . .)

Answer 2

I'd say that the lines or phrases from this excerpt of Poetry that Marianne Moore uses to show the impact of great poetry are:

1. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one / discovers in /it after all, a place for the genuine.
2. these things are important not because a
3. high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because / they are useful. . .

Step-by-step explanation:

I chose these three options because in those lines the author expresses that, for her, readers can take good and important concepts from reading poetry, she thinks that it has a perfect contempt to discover genuinity and that that content poetry has is very useful for life. She thinks poetry make readers grow and that is a place where to feel comfortable, a place where to find yourselves and feel represented. All these ideas are the ones that come from reading these three lines and that is why I chose those options.