Poetry for Students, Volume 29

I thought I wouldn’t write apoem, but just write what I wanted to without fear, let my imagination go, open secrecy, and scribbl ...

capitalism causes members of a society to develop. This dependence may be described as a narcotic or sleep-inducing haze because ...

bad taste in literature. Part I, line 6, critiques the involvement of Columbia University scholars in the research and developme ...

Scare against alleged Communists with the so-called Lavender Scare against homosexuals. Many states had in place sodomy laws tha ...

That is not to say, however, that Ginsberg’s poem has lost its ability to shock. In 2007, fifty years after Judge Horn’s ruling ...

frankness was considered immoral. Whitman’s poetry praises nature and the human body as part of nature but equally emphasizes th ...

form, personified in the child-eating malevolent god Moloch. It is a cliche ́of politicians that chil- dren are a society’s futu ...

through imagery. He closely juxtaposes the lowly and (in conventional morality) the profane with the divine, all under the umbre ...

this is thinking.) I have a fair degree of confi- dence in myself. Either I’m a genius, I’m egocen- tric, or I’m slightly schizo ...

His friends and mentors weren’t faring well, either. Lucien Carr was behind bars, imprisoned for murdering David Kammerer, anoth ...

Ginsberg fled New York and an unsatisfac- tory attempt at a relationship with William Bur- roughs in 1953, and after spending ne ...

within living memory, most legitimately resem- bles Whitman. He, like Whitman, wrote an emblematic American poem that became wor ...

Second World War, characterized by anxiety about the atomic bomb, a manipulated terror of godless Communism, the strange pathos ...

and then again inPartisan Review.By the time these pieces were being written,On the Roadhad been published, as well asNaked Lunc ...

Ginsberg’s poem ‘‘Howl.’’ At two key junctures in the poem, Ginsberg incorporates the image of a Ping-Pong game into description ...

As a result, when Carl overturns the Ping- Pong table, he not only protests his treatment at the asylum, but he also makes a pro ...

by Barry Miles, HarperCollins, 2006, pp. 125–26, 129–31, 133–34, 139, 146. ———, ‘‘Notes Written on Finally Recording ‘Howl,’’’ i ...

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur’s poem ‘‘Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’’ is one of the most ...

Author Biography Richard Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921. His father was a commercial portrait artist and his ...

situation: a person waking up and, being acutely aware at that moment of the division between the spiritual and physical realiti ...