Marianne Moore’s Poetry: Perceptions and Illusions

Marianne Moore was a poet of deep observation. Through her observation she found life primarily a struggle for survival. Moore focused on beauty and ugliness, happiness and sorrow, and illusion and reality in an apparent contradiction. She sees temporal reality through the illusion of worldly existence. The present publication is an attempt to see how far Marianne Moore perceives the reality of eternal life through the various images used in her poetry.