By Lauren Hamilton
In contempt we learn the most about something to understand why we hate the idea of it in the first place. In the second, how to grow from the hate to better ourselves as humans. Marianne Moore says it perfectly in the cut down version of her piece “Poetry”, it speaks of having contempt for something allows the reader to find the genuine. In allowing the genuine to be defined by the reader themselves it makes defining poetry rather difficult. In the original version Moore speaks of the more various ways in which poetry pokes and prods the reader into a feelings of dislike for the subject. It is in the poking at a sore spot that one can define poetry as poetry.