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Re: The importance of real toads
by Jim Powell SlateIcon
Marianne Moore never in her life responded to a poetic problem with "what the hell". The off-handed flippancy of "fiddle" is teasing. This kind of wit is basic to her style. Pound called it logopoeia. Laforgue was her proximate inspiration here as also with her rhymes & aspects of her stanza.
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