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"When Ginsberg promises to pt his "queer shoulder to the wheel" ... he is committing himself to write poetry that will... redefine his nation." I feel that are his true intentions to redefine his nation but I believe he does so reluctantly due to the fact that he feels the country is going to crap and that he need sot intervene because he is his country.

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"Ginsberg ... is doing Americas soul searching, confronting his nations shortcomings not to condemn them but to fix them" I partially agree for I do believe he is condemning the short comings but while also trying to fix them.

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"Ginsberg has replaced Whitman's personification of America as a "strong" "erect," 'masculine," and "sonorous," union soldier, with himself, "nearsighted," "psychopathic," and "queer." The writer further proves that Ginsberg is America and relates to America in his poem.

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It is, right down to the bad grammar, the "ughs" and "hahs," and the ridiculous notion that Russia wants to steal Chicago right off the map, pure satire." The grammar is used as satire but to go into specific it is used to show how he perceives America.

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He shifts back to speaking from himself in stanza 3 but still speaks in America's mood as stated in War and Walt Whitman in Allen Ginsberg's "America". This is true and follows what Ginsberg is doing in the poem from being like America even after he shifts from speaking like America.

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"(45-46) This is paradoxical, dual perspective is actually a direct reference to Whitman who speaks to and from the point of view of America in his poem "Eighteen Sixty-One"."I do not believe this to be the case for I see it as Ginsberg seeing himself being associated to America and it may be reference to Whitman I do not see that being the main reason for its use.

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"Line (15) Ginsberg is obviously being sarcastic here, perhaps even mocking America's self aggrandizing sense of entitlement" This is related to the stamen on gibberish i meant on how he per sieves america and how he implements it into the poem by using satire.

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"The first stanza of "America" is an argument between the author and his nation" This statement supports my claim that the poem is a letter to America and the first stanza is an argument that is clear i the context of the poem.

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"How could Ginsberg give himself fully to a cause which saw him as the enemy? This is the tension at the heart of "America."" I believe he does see himself as an enemy but I do not believe that is the true tension in the poem. The true tension of the poem is the mistakes and state of America at the time.

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"Ginsberg is consumed by the anxiety that comes with this sacrifice" this is related to him being nothing due to America but I do not believe he is referencing a sacrifice but that America took everything from him.

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The opening of "America" "mirrors Whitman's attitude towards his nation in a time of war" with the opening of his time period and how he is nothing. These points apparently are a direct reference to Whitman's approach to poetry and this may be true but Ginsberg does go at it in an opposite direction as stated.

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"(45-46) Ginsberg is adopting Whitman's ideals of solidarity and disconnectedness" I do not see this as being the case for I believe the only thing Ginsberg is trying to get across is how intertwined he is with America not to mirror on of his influences.

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"Ginsberg is frustrated by a time of seeming endless war in the nuclear age" showing that war is meaningless in the eyes of Ginsberg and that he clearly gets the point across.

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"Ginsberg frequently mentioned Whitman as an influence."