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? a “nor is it valid / to discriminate against ‘business documents and / school - books’; all these phenomena are important.” b “one must make a distinction / however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not / poetry” c “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.” d “reading 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 towards poetry (acknowledging merits while expressing displeasure). Option D shows contempt for poetry at first but then discovers a place for the genuine in it, which reflects the ambivalence. Option A is about not discriminating against non - poetry items. Option B is about distinguishing real poetry from what half - poets produce. Option C is about not admiring what is unintelligible in poems.

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."