What is ironic about this excerpt from "poetry" by marianne moore?

reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.

a. the speaker does not change her view of always appreciating poetry.

b. the speaker does not change her view of feeling disdain for poetry.

c. the speaker says she enjoys poetry but then decides that there is no use for it.

d. the speaker says she dislikes poetry but then makes an argument in favor of it.

The speaker says she dislikes poetry and then makes an argument in favor of the poetry. A wonderfully phrased sentence if I may add.

the correct answer is option d. the nature of democracy. on november 19, 1863, president abraham lincoln delivered his famous gettysburg address in gettysburg, pennsylvania. in his speech, rather than focusing on details of the war (soldiers, casualties, aftermath of battle), lincoln invoked the very nature of democracy, that power ultimately comes from the people, when stating, “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish”. these words mean that democracy is a government by the people (citizens) in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by the people or by their elected representatives for the benefit of all citizens. the survival of democracy in the united states is one of the reasons why this speech so significant today.