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8 Jul: "Sojourn in the Whale" by Marianne Moore

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  1. 5/5- A thinking woman's poem!

    It is kind of brilliant how the author makes her ideas yours! She writes, "And you have smiled" and "You have seen it." The main character fails, and then we read the interpretation why.This pretty much makes us think about it the way she wants us to. As if the reader might not pick up that waves are wavy? Or that wavy isn't level. (In her defense, people are pretty stupid)

    This poem has a ton going on from the fable about spinning gold to Ireland to whales. All contributing to the hopelessness describe in the first stanza.

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