ABSTRACT
Moore does not argue that poetry should remain politically detached, on the contrary, poetry is the site of 'implicit' political expression. Poetry does not rise above the political realm but rather through its use of complex verbal strategies it makes more meaningful political statements, statements that verify Moore's own patriotism rather than pointing to a treacherous indifference to her nation's suffering. Moore also understood that as a woman poet she was more vulnerable to the charge of political indifference. Moore would then, perhaps, have approved of a critical strategy that finds the historical dimension within the poem itself rather than reading poetry simply as a reflection of its historical moment or as a direct response to particular social issues. While this study does trace Moore's own responses to the cultures of modernity via her feminist pragmatism, it also traces modernity's inscriptions upon the modernist poem.
