Ead the quotation from "some keep the sabbath going to church." and instead of tolling the bell, for church, our little sexton – sings. what is the most likely reason for the poet to oppose the phrases "tolling the bell" and "sings" in these lines? the poet is expressing her belief that the second, more natural option is far more desirable than the first option. the poet is hinting that religious worship should be considered a gloomy and serious activity. the poet is suggesting that those who worship in nature are more formal than those who worship in church. the poet is contrasting her attitude about religion with her feelings about the natural world, which remains largely unappreciated.

Marianne moore’s “poetry” is written in defense of poetry. in the excerpts, which three lines or phrases reflect moore’s opinion of what good poetry should be? . . to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. one must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" —above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. in the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.