Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings.
rude and disrespectful behavior
an opening for the passage of steam or liquid
the feeling that a person or an object is worthless
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
(from “Poetry” by Marianne Moore)
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. . .One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"–above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall
we have
it. . .
(from “Poetry” by Marianne Moore)
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The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
(from “Anecdote of the Jar” by Wallace Stevens)