Sunflower Sutra is one of the most effective yet simultaneously beautiful stream of consciousness pieces that is available. Sunflower Sutra is effective both in packaging and shipping the message of Allen Ginsberg and in painting a picture that stimulates listeners to action through zeal finding and amplifying imagery and descriptions. Allen Ginsberg uses the unstructured style, the use of intense and emotion evoking imagery and a pulsating central message to drag the listener into his world and make them understand just what he is thinking and feeling at this period in time when through his eyes the world was twisted and nonsensical and when he believed people needed to turn their minds inside out and reevaluate it for what it was. .
The structure of Sunflower Sutra is crucial and an intentional device Allen Ginsberg utilized in ensuring that the listener received just the message that he intended him/her to receive. When read out loud the lines, paragraphs and trains of thought seem to time themselves with the capacity of a person to speak. Thought and breath in parallel existence give the reader's words urgency , urgency was what Allen Ginsberg felt in 1955 when he looked out over the banks of the tincan banana dock and saw a world wrapped materialism world and being showered with the filth that was the product of its own worthless existence. He wanted people to wake up from their shielded, hazy lives where lack of light clouded the views of the world and people lived with an movie screen pulled in front of their faces and believed what they saw was reality and never questioned for a moment why things were the way they were. The fact that there is no real order to the poem that can be given a name and that is cannot be squeezed into the unyielding confinements of a category of poetry makes Ginsberg's words seem closer to his listener because his poem mirrors the entropy of the real world.
This consumerism is apparent, glaring at us from the pages of "America", "Howl" and "Sunflower Sutra", a reflection of the world outside. ... The sunflower, once beautiful is ruined, and personified as Christ wearing a "battered crown" to show the effect consumerism has on humanity, that the people of America are willing to sacrifice nature for a temporary "fix". ...
