Abstract: Marianne Moore distinguishes her poetry with particularity and objectivity, which seems to be compatible with the general trend of modernist poetry. Authenticity is the core of Moore’s poetics, with precision as its outward manifestation and a way to poetic authenticity. Her precision or aesthetic of precision illustrates itself in the precise repetition of syllabic stanzaic form and the radically objective presentation of facts. Even though Moore’s poetry boasts of scientific and objective precision, the absoluteness of this precision is quietly yet firmly denied at the same time. Moore’s predilection for science, objectivity and precision is a necessary outcome from not only the development of science and philosophy, but also modernist poets’ adaptation to new reality and new ways of cognition on the one hand, and on the other it serves as her strategy to use authoritative discursive mode of discourse in advocating poetry and art and securing their place in the modernist context. Moore’s aesthetic of precision emphasizes objectivity, yet her objectivity is by no means simplistic or pure; instead it is a composite integrating objectivity and subjectivity.

Key words: Marianne Moore, aesthetic of precision, authenticity, objectivity