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The selection of Marianne Moore¡¦s poetry offered in this Study Guide covers her life¡¦s work.¡§Poetry¡¨is one of her early poems which appeared in Poems of 1921.¡§An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle . . .¡¨belongs to Observations (1924);¡§In the Days of Prismatic Colour,¡¨¡§No Swan So Fine,¡¨and¡§The Frigate Pelican¡¨to Selected Poems (1935);¡§The Pangolin¡¨to The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936);¡§Rigorists¡¨was written in 1940, and¡§In Distrust of Merits¡¨in 1944.
The selections are arranged according to topics.¡§Poetry¡¨and¡§In the Days of Prismatic Colour¡¨deal with the art of poetry;¡§An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle¡¨and¡§No Swan So Fine¡¨with good and bad art;¡§The Frigate Pelican,¡¨¡§The Pangolin,¡¨and¡§Rigorists¡¨with animals;¡§In Distrust of Merits¡¨deals directly with man¡¦s guilt in war. It is her most popular poem and she was asked to read it in all her public readings.