https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt https://sketchesonliterature.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/ginsbergs-supermarket-vs-whitmans-america-an-analysis/ en-us 2018-01-03 17:57:26 UTC 2018-01-26 04:01:15 UTC hello@padlet.com clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218586177 The poem begins with the voice walking at night and looking for inspiration. He goes into a supermarket with Whitman and finds there some families and the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.]]> 2018-01-03 17:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218586177 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218589319 “the supermarket is America”. In fact, it could be recognized as a miniature representation of contemporary America, an artificial America where lights are neon lights, where meat is in a refrigerator, groceries are inside “brilliant stacks of cans”, and everything is arranged in organized “aisles”. ]]> 2018-01-03 18:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218589319 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218590616 Whitman’s role in “A Supermarket in California” brings about an alternative, rich perspective with which to look at reality from an alternative and distant point of view.]]> 2018-01-03 18:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218590616 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218660897 the whole American reality that he represents, is confined in the supermarket.]]> 2018-01-04 01:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218660897 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218662648 wandering through the aisles of the supermarket and end up with a feeling of nostalgia for “the America of love”.]]> 2018-01-04 01:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/l5x30i4uchbt/wish/218662648