The men wore black dress pants, black shirt, and usually were seen wearing glasses and a beard. The women wore black stockings, short skirts, and duffel jackets; they had pale lips and long loose hair. ... Cardboard boxes, which were cheap and easily replaceable, became chairs. ... The bags filled with little balls formed to the shape of the body. ... Day-Glo is a type of paint that has a reaction to the black light (Garner, 54-60). ...

• Word Count: 2176
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To America, the soul is unimportant, simply another thing to trade for a "blue automobile" or a box of cornflakes. ... Capitalism "burned cigarette holes" in the American soul, a "narcotic tobacco haze" that Ginsberg denounces, angered by an apparent state of forgetfulness "on the black waters of Lethe" whereby Americans do not remember how to survive without fridges and supermarkets to supply them with the reformed American Dream. ... The writers view on organised religion is that it is little more than a farce, but that true religion comes from inside, one personally finding the soul, rather...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate