Solitary Sparrow A Beat Poet's Desire To Be Heard And Instoid Analysis
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Debra Disharoon
Professor Anderson
Wrt 101
28 October, 2011
“Solitary Sparrow: A Beat Poet’s Desire to be Heard and Understood” Alan Ginsberg was born to Louis and Naomi Ginsberg on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. He came from a proletariat background and grew to be a major influence for the counterculture of the 1950’s and has impacted the lives of people, particularly youth, for generations. His difficult childhood due to his mother’s mental illness and the resulting stress between his parents, as well as his alternative sexual preference, shaped his personal development which was later funneled into his poetry. He went on to attend college at Columbia University, where he met …show more content…
Whitman and Ginsberg leave the market together with new ideas, enjoying that they didn’t have to pay for their freedom of thought and just passed by the cashier mentioned in line 18. He asks of Whitman in lines 19 and 20, “Where are we going? Which way does your beard point tonight?”. Ginsberg comes back to reality with, “(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)”. He proceeds to ask questions of Whitman, wanting to know if people such as they are to lead a solitary life. In the last lines, Ginsberg’s style becomes more elaborate and serious when he references the mythological character, Charon, who transported newly dead souls into Hades on his ferry, and the river of Disharoon 5
Lethe, which represents oblivion and forgetfulness. This suggests that Ginsberg believed that most people once heard the message of freedom and thinking independently, and, somewhere along the way, chose to forget.
“A Supermarket in California” begins as a man who sets out to find inspiration and companionship, and grows heavier and darker as the poem progresses. Ginsburg conveys the message that people like himself and Whitman are alone because they are part of a minority that went against and questioned the set social norms of his time. He identifies with and tips his hat to Walt Whitman with this poem since he went against the grain during his
Debra Disharoon
Professor Anderson
Wrt 101
28 October, 2011
“Solitary Sparrow: A Beat Poet’s Desire to be Heard and Understood” Alan Ginsberg was born to Louis and Naomi Ginsberg on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. He came from a proletariat background and grew to be a major influence for the counterculture of the 1950’s and has impacted the lives of people, particularly youth, for generations. His difficult childhood due to his mother’s mental illness and the resulting stress between his parents, as well as his alternative sexual preference, shaped his personal development which was later funneled into his poetry. He went on to attend college at Columbia University, where he met …show more content…
Whitman and Ginsberg leave the market together with new ideas, enjoying that they didn’t have to pay for their freedom of thought and just passed by the cashier mentioned in line 18. He asks of Whitman in lines 19 and 20, “Where are we going? Which way does your beard point tonight?”. Ginsberg comes back to reality with, “(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)”. He proceeds to ask questions of Whitman, wanting to know if people such as they are to lead a solitary life. In the last lines, Ginsberg’s style becomes more elaborate and serious when he references the mythological character, Charon, who transported newly dead souls into Hades on his ferry, and the river of Disharoon 5
Lethe, which represents oblivion and forgetfulness. This suggests that Ginsberg believed that most people once heard the message of freedom and thinking independently, and, somewhere along the way, chose to forget.
“A Supermarket in California” begins as a man who sets out to find inspiration and companionship, and grows heavier and darker as the poem progresses. Ginsburg conveys the message that people like himself and Whitman are alone because they are part of a minority that went against and questioned the set social norms of his time. He identifies with and tips his hat to Walt Whitman with this poem since he went against the grain during his