Poetry
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are
important beyond
| all this fiddle.
How does free verse support the speaker of the
poem's initial statement "Poetry/l, too, dislike it?
Check the two boxes that apply
Free verse makes this poem look less like
what was classically considered poetry
Free verse makes the poem read more like
prose
Free verse gives the poem its formal
structure
Free verse sets up a predictable pattern
Reading it, however, with a perfect
contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
—“Poetry,
Marianne Moore
DONE
Intro