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Which lines or phrases from this excerpt of her poem "Poetry" does Marianne Moore use to show the impact of great poetry?


I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.

Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one

discovers in

it after all, a place for the genuine.

Hands that can grasp, eyes

that can dilate, hair that can rise if it must,

these things are important not because a


high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because

they are

useful. . .

Athere are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.

BReading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.

CHands that can grasp

Deyes that can dilate

Ehair that can rise if it must

F. these things are important not because a


G. high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because

they are useful