Question

\poetry\ is a 1919 poem by marianne moore. the poem highlights an ambivalence toward poetry as the speaker acknowledges its merits while also expressing a sense of displeasure, writing ______
which quotation from \poetry\ most effectively illustrates the claim?

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or is it valid / to discriminate against business documents and / school - books; all these phenomena are important.\

○ \one must make a distinction / however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not / poetry\

○ \when poems become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the / same thing may be said for all of us—that we / do not admire what / we cannot understand.\

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eading poetry, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in / it after all, a place for the genuine.\

Explanation:

The claim is about the speaker's ambivalence toward poetry (acknowledging merits while expressing displeasure). Let's analyze each option:

• First option: Talks about not discriminating against business documents/school - books, not about ambivalence toward poetry.
• Second option: Focuses on what is not poetry when dragged by half - poets, not ambivalence.
• Third option: Discusses not admiring what's unintelligible, not ambivalence toward poetry itself.
• Fourth option: "Reading [poetry], however, with a perfect contempt for it (displeasure), one discovers that there is in / it after all, a place for the genuine (merits)" shows both the negative (contempt) and positive (genuine place) feelings, matching the ambivalence.

Answer:

D. "Reading [poetry], however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in / it after all, a place for the genuine."