Complete Poems of Marianne Moore Glossary

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Complete Poems of Marianne Moore Glossary

Revision

When a writer returns to a work to make changes or alterations. Moore revised many of the poems she wrote in early life later on in life.

Allusion

An indirect or passing reference to something or somebody

Form

The style and arrangement of an artistic work.

Narrative voice

The person, in a work of literature, who is describing or recounting an event or a scene. For example, first-person narrative voice is indicated by 'I' e.g. I saw, I heard.

Modernism

A literary movement that emerged in the 20th century, which pioneered stream of consciousness narrative, broken syntax and played with structural elements in a reaction against Victorian literary norms and the changing nature of the world (WW1).

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