(1) Summarize the milieu of Mountain Rainier as depicted in Moore’s ode “An Octopus.”
(2) Analyze several of Moore’s verse fables—for example, “His Shield,” “The Fish,” and translations from la Fontaine.
(3) Using “To a Snail,” “Silence,” “No Swan So Fine,” “The Jerboa,” “O To Be a Dragon,” or “The Paper Nautilus,” locate examples of what Moore calls “the genuine.”
(4) Contrast Moore’s scientific eye for detail with that of poet A. R. Ammons.
(5) Discuss the role of memory in Moore’s poetry.
