What “enumerations” does Ginsberg list? street names✔ fruitstrees
Identify a feeling that Ginsberg conveys with his use of style, structure, and theme.
How does the structure of the poem emphasize these “enumerations”? by spreading them throughout the poem✔ by grouping them togetherby using a list to make them easy to recognize
What are the effects of Ginsberg’s list of images? Check all of the boxes that apply.
How do the speaker and Whitman disobey the laws of consumerism? by not feeling comfortable in the supermarket✔ by sampling items but not paying for themby asking the pork and bananas silly questions
The poem reflects Ginsberg’s relationship to Whitman by showing Ginsberg’s
The final line of the poem asks Whitman about the America he experienced one hundred years ago. What meaning does Ginsberg convey by ending the poem this way?
By ending the poem with a question to Whitman about the America of a hundred years earlier, Ginsberg conveys that Whitman’s idealized “America of love” no longer exists. The speaker suggests Whitman would not recognize the commercialized, lonely America of the 1950s and expresses longing for that earlier, more hopeful vision, while also implying Whitman’s view was shaped by his own social and cultural position.
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