In poststructuralist theory, a text is not a work of an author, but an anonymous and impersonal linguistic process of crossing the various quotations from canonical/non-canonical utterances. This poststructuralist concept of intertexuality can enlarge the hegemonic litetary canon; it can be criticized in that it neglects historically specific social factors of a text. Minor groups, including feminists, who cannot jettison the development of alternative subjectivity to challenge the hegemonic ideology, are especially complicated by the problem of influence and intertexuality. Moore`s long poem "Marriage" provides an example of the dynamics of influence and intertexuality of a woman poet writing in the phallocentric literary canon. Moore displays the authorial agency through responding to major authors in the literary canon; she employs an intertexual subversion to make the literary canon only a small part of a rich cultural intertext through the various quotations from canonical/non-canonical utterances. Her handling of various quotations erodes even the authority of Milton`s Paradise Lost. It is treated not only as a literary treasure but as a raw material with its hegemonic biases. Moore`s marginal subjectivity as a woman poet of recognizing the repressed under the established powers and dispersing the hegemonic biases can be compared with Eliot`s possessive subjectivity of appropriating the canonical ideal.