... presents in his poem is a reflection of the social and political strife that the American society had experienced during the post - Vietnam War era. In the first part Ginsberg uses a Walt Whitman style of writing, the use of free verse in long rhythmical lines with natural, organic structures. This is the longest and most powerful, an angry prophetic lament. It's cataloging of ... ...
... well: rhythm, improvisation, and the call and response. This first, rhythm, has been utilized in the United States since the onset of free verse. Following the free-verse tradition of Walt Whitman, a Beat-like luminary, the meter of Ginsberg's poetry is like American dialect, wrought with rhythmic shift and "staccato abruptness" (Feinstein 81). I'm with you in Rockland where we wake up electrified ... ...
... , unwilling to become just another number in a system that keeps itself alive by stealing its inhabitants individuality, by numbing the soul. Ginsberg sees this as a fault of America's forefathers, asking Walt Whitman what it was like 100 years ago, if America had already lost its soul. He looks to the past to explain the America that he knew. America was built on ... ...
... launch the San Francisco renaissance and is considered a leader of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Much of his writing demonstrates the influence of the respected American poets, Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound, as well as intimations of mysticism exemplified in Far Eastern forms. His poetry is known for its balance of stillness and exuberant energy and incorporates elements of ... ...
