 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1924 - 666 pages
...this is regrettable, but a mathematician can hardly be expected to regret it. SILENCE MARIANNE MOORE My father used to say, "Superior people never make...insincere in saying, " 'Make my house your inn.'' A STRANGE MURDERER BY MAXIM GORKI Translated From the Russian by Marie Budberg A5OUT two months before... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - American literature - 1927 - 378 pages
...make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass flowers at Harvard. 5 Self-reliant like the cat — that takes its prey to privacy, the...a shoelace from its mouth — they sometimes enjoy solitudes, and can be robbed of speech 10 by speech which has delighted them. The deepest feeling always... | |
 | Jeanne Heuving - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 204 pages
...and likewise to him, is limited Notably, then, in the fathers speech, his example of self-reliance is "the cat / that takes its prey to privacy, / the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoe lace from its mouth." Far from the Emersonian ideal of self-reliance, this example introduces... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - Religion - 1994 - 264 pages
...make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave or the glass flowers at Harvard. Self-reliant like the cat that takes its prey to privacy, the mouse's...robbed of speech by speech which has delighted them. • * II ! The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint." Nor... | |
 | Sabine Sielke - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
...make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave or the glass flowers at Haivard. Self-reliant like the cat— that takes its prey to privacy, the...insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn." Inns arc not residences. (Poms 8a) As a poem about self-reliance, "Silence" relates to Moore's poem "Peter"... | |
 | Guy Davenport - Literary Collections - 1997 - 404 pages
...it, when obstacles happened to bar / the path, rise automatically" ("Sojourn in the Whale"). The cat "takes its prey to privacy, / the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth" ("Silence"). This aptness is the result of a precisionist's searching for words: brief words exactly... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature." Feelings 1 The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. MARIANNE MOORE, (1887-1972) US poet. "Silence," Selected Poems (1935). Fellowship 1 We must love one... | |
 | English philology - 2000 - 284 pages
...OBASAN TO ITSUKA: THE POWER OF SILENCE IN JOY KOGAWA'S REWRITING OF HISTORY Teresa Gibert-Maceda (UNED) "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint." (Marianne Moore) When we think about the process of interaction between language and power in the literary... | |
 | Glynis Carr - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 204 pages
...period of silence is entitled "Silence," and its best-known lines seem to comment on her situation: "the deepest feeling always shows itself in silence / Not in silence but restraint" (CP, 91). The context of "Silence" resonates deeply with Moore's domestic situation, for the poem is... | |
 | James Fenton - American poetry - 2003 - 288 pages
...make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave or the glass flowers at Harvard. Self-reliant like the cat — that takes its prey to privacy, the...in saying, 'Make my house your inn.' Inns are not residences.6 This is a fictional father. The first part is attributed in a later note to a Miss AH... | |
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Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave or the glass flowers at Harvard. Self-reliant like the cat — that takes its prey to privacy, the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth — they sometimes... 
