Read the excerpt from "Poetry."I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine. What is the meaning of the word “contempt” in this context?

“Contempt” means a feeling that something is unworthy of respect or attention. The speaker says that even while reading poetry with “perfect contempt” for it, one can still find something genuine in it. So the word means “scorn,” not indifference or appreciation.

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