Question

Moral of 'The snails' poem

Answer 1

To a Snail

If “compression is the first grace of style,”
you have it. Contractility is a virtue
as modesty is a virtue.
It is not the acquisition of any one thing
that is able to adorn,
or the incidental quality that occurs
as a concomitant of something well said,
that we value in style,
but the principle that is hid:
in the absence of feet, “a method of conclusions”;
“a knowledge of principles,”
in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.

Author’s Notes:
“Compression is the first grace of style”: Democritus.
“Method of conclusions”; “knowledge of principles”: Duns Scotus.

Marianne Moore was a tireless and unforgiving editor of her own work. In the new edition of the collected poetry, Heather Cass White revises the author’s revisions, omissions, and re-orderings, to retrieve the texts as they were first printed, and in order of composition.

Answer 2

Explanation:

• The moral of the Poem “The Snails” is the compression which is the first grace of style. We should consider all types of judgment and should make the correct judgment.
• Also, the poet has mentioned about the knowledge of principles means we should have the knowledge of our traditions, principles and complete nature for the better growth of ourselves. We all should be a modest person like the snails who does all their works in modesty and brevity.

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