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TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE by MARIANNE MOORE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT IS MADE CLEAR BY THE PHRASE
Last Line: OUTSHINES ORDINARY JEWELS, IS YOUR PRAISE.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; TAGORE, RABINDRANATH, SIR (1861-1941); YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER (1865-1939);
IT is made clear by the phrase,
Even the mood—by virtue of which he says

The thing he thinks—that it pays,
To cut gems even in these conscience-less days;

But the jewel that always
Outshines ordinary jewels, is your praise.



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