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The speaker is Allen Ginsberg speaking to the audience of the 20th century and of modern times. The rhetorical situation is that we are mindless consumers who don't know the face of their products. The theme is about consumerism and what has it means for each of us. Are we happy with what we are doing? To get this message across the poetic device is a nontraditional or free verse format that goes between storytelling and inquiry of consumerisms. Allen Ginsberg channels his inner Walt Whitman in this fantastic poem. This has the marks of greatness in his class work of, "O Captain! My Captain!". This is a poem that is about contrasting the then present day with the 19th century. The poem is in the supermarket because this poem is a big representation
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