... 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 ... ...

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... , 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 ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate