*Stevens and Moore - lyric line*

Compare one poem from one author in regards to sound elements that exist.

I don't usually take too much more from poetry than what can be found on the surface, so needless to say Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens's poetry went way over my head. What I did get out of them was their rhythm and flow as I read.

In Moore's poem, "What are Years", and in Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar", there was a very choppy or fragmented flow. Moore uses groupings of phrases and similar ideas to to achieve this: "What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe...". While Moore's stanzas run into each other, Stevens's "Anecdote" did not. Through his punctuation in seemingly odd places, he causes the flow to be disrupted.