Marianne Moore 시 "Values in Use"

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내용을 가장, 결과적으로, 간편하게 표현하는 글이 시다.

그게 감상이든 철학이든, 열쇠는 '시 읽는 즐거움'이다.

 

"Complete Poems of Marianne Moore"에서 "Values in Use"를 읽는다.

 

 

Values in Use 

Marianne Moore

 

I attended school and I liked the place --

grass and little locust-leaf shadows like lace.

 

Writing was discussed. They said, "We creat

values in the process of living, daren't await

 

their historic progress." Be abstract

and you'll wish you'd been specific; it's a fact.

 

What was I studying? Values in use,

"judged on their own ground." Am I still abstruse?

 

Walking along, a student said off hand,

"'Relevant' and 'plausible' were words I understand."

 

A pleasing statement, anonymous friend.

Certainly the means must not defeat the end.

 

(Partisan Review, 1956)

 

 

 

"The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore" (1967)