{"id":173,"date":"2025-08-17T18:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:32:43","slug":"marianne-moore-the-student-1932","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/texts\/marianne-moore-the-student-1932\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Moore, \u201cThe Student\u201d (1932)"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTRODUCTION<\/h3>\n
\"Moore\"<\/a>
Marianne Moore (New Yorker<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)<\/a> was born in St. Louis, Missouri but moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a child and lived in town for a dozen years.\u00a0 During that time, she worked for nearly four years as a business teacher at the Carlisle Indian School.\u00a0 The celebrated football player, Jim Thorpe, was one of her students. During World War I, Moore moved to New York City, worked at the New York Public Library, and became a poet.\u00a0 Moore served as an editor of the Dial<\/em>, a leading literary magazine, during the 1920s and became well known a modernist poet.\u00a0 She won several prizes, including the Pulitzer.\u00a0 “The Student” first appeared in\u00a0Poetry\u00a0<\/em>magazine in 1932 with the subtitle:\u00a0 “Part of a Novel, Part of a Poem, Part of a Play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

The Student<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cIn America\u201d, began
\nthe lecturer, \u201ceveryone must have a
\ndegree. The French do not think that
\nall can have it, they don\u2019t say everyone
\nmust go to college.\u201d We
\nincline to feel, here,
\nthat although it may be unnecessary<\/p>\n

to know fifteen languages,
\none degree is not too much. With us, a
\nschool \u2013 like the singing tree of which
\nthe leaves were mouths that sang in concert \u2013
\nis both a tree of knowledge
\nand of liberty -,
\nseen in the unanimity of college<\/p>\n

mottoes, lux et veritas,
\nChristo et ecclesiae, sapiet
\nfelici. It may be that we
\nhave not knowledge, just opinions, that we
\nare undergraduates,
\nnot students; we know
\nwe have been told with smiles, by expatriates<\/p>\n

of whom we had asked \u201cWhen will
\nyour experiment be finished?\u201d \u201cScience
\nis never finished.\u201d Secluded
\nfrom domestic strife, Jack Bookworm led a
\ncollege life, says Goldsmith;
\nand here also as
\nin France or Oxford, study is beset with<\/p>\n

dangers \u2013 with bookworms, mildews,
\nand complaisancies. But someone in New
\nEngland has known enough to say
\nthat the student is patience personified,
\na variety
\nof hero, \u201cpatient
\nof neglect and of reproach\u201d \u2013 who can \u201chold by<\/p>\n

himself\u201d. You can\u2019t beat hens to
\nmake them lay. Wolf\u2019s wool is the best of wool,
\nbut it cannot be sheared, because
\nthe wolf will not comply. With knowledge as
\nwith wolves\u2019 surliness,the student studies
\nvoluntarily, refusing to be less
\nthan individual. He<\/p>\n

\u201cgives his opinion and then rests upon it\u201d;
\nhe renders service when there is
\nno reward, and is too reclusive for
\nsome things to seem to touch
\nhim; not because he
\nhas no feeling but because he has so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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