What Are Years

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"What Are Years" is a celebrated poem by American modernist poet Marianne Moore that meditates on resilience, mortality, and the nature of human courage.

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instanceOf literaryWork
poem
addressesQuestion how suffering relates to spiritual growth
how to live with awareness of death
what constitutes true courage
author Marianne Moore NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresConcept faith in the face of suffering
heroism
human vulnerability
time
firstLine What is our innocence,
form lyric poem
genre modernist poetry
hasAuthorNationality American
hasCriticalReputation celebrated
frequently anthologized
hasPoeticDevice allusion
enjambment
imagery
paradox
repetition
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century American poetry
meter free verse
notableLine And in fact cannot fall to one who can rise
He sees deep and is glad, who accedes to mortality
rhymeScheme irregular
styleCharacteristic complex syntax
compressed imagery
moral inquiry
philosophical reflection
subject the confrontation with death
the meaning of human life
the nature of courage
theme acceptance of death
human courage
mortality
resilience
spiritual endurance
suffering
tone earnest
meditative
resolute

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Marianne Moore notableWork What Are Years