https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai source 2 en-us 2017-12-08 14:05:10 UTC 2025-12-23 21:58:58 UTC hello@padlet.com clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215006861 Walt Whitman is a poet from the 19th century, ginsberg and whitman have the same writing style, both viewing american as naive and both thought poetically inappropriate at the time, such as matters of sex and the body, scenes of physical injury and death, and images of common labor and slavery.
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T001&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=4&docId=GALE%7CH1420043007&docType=Critical+essay&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GLS&contentSet=GALE%7CH1420043007&searchId=R1&userGroupName=j243905&inPS=true]]> 2017-12-11 13:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215006861 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215015335 At the beginning of "A Supermarket in California," Ginsberg introduces himself as pondering this magnificent democratic vista of poetry and later as holding a volume of Whitman's poetry. ]]> 2017-12-11 14:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215015335 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215016358 Ginsberg ironically and humorously measures himself against Whitman's grandiose poetic self-depiction and compares Whitman's ideal view of America with what it had actually become in the era of anti-Communist witch-hunts, preprocessed food, television advertising, and nuclear bombs.]]> 2017-12-11 14:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215016358 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215021217 No longer can Ginsberg innocently "loiter "and "loaf" (two verbs Whitman uses to describe how he witnesses the American scene) in the claustrophobic space of the supermarket]]> 2017-12-11 14:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215021217 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215021351  suspicious employees watching the dreamy, aimless poet at every step to make sure he is not shoplifting. If in his poetic dream of comradeship with Whitman, Ginsberg can stride "down the open corridors" of the supermarket, tasting the fruit and frozen food and not paying, this only serves to remind his reader how much life in the America of the 1950s was hemmed in by disapproving "detectives" and "cashiers"--by the power of the law and the almighty dollar.

]]> 2017-12-11 14:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215021351 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215022344 Ginsberg shifts from Whitman's typical images of work and production to images of spending money and consuming]]> 2017-12-11 14:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/215022344 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218559667  Whitman presents a figure who might still be seen, in a different incarnation, in Ginsberg's supermarket: "The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market, / I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down." The poet catches the working boy at a pause in his labor and listens to him bantering with his fellow workers. ]]> 2018-01-03 16:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218559667 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218560837 Ginsberg's poem suggests that even the boys whom Whitman once poetically presented at work have become for him one more consumable item among the "meat" and "fruit."]]> 2018-01-03 16:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218560837 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218568319 the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is gay. Ginsburg mentions him in the poem and whitman together because Ginsberg finds himself a social splinter whose only true comrades are ghosts. He finds only solitary roles left to fill: the late-night shopper, the lonely gay male without a lover. ]]> 2018-01-03 17:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218568319 clrodriguez18 https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218661855 In Ginsberg's poem, in contrast, Whitman is presented as the lonely gay cruiser, surrounded mostly by products for sale and consumption rather than the activity of producing: "I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. / I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"( this is making whitman sound as though he is stalking or being a deviant)]]> 2018-01-04 01:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/clrodriguez18/tvcepp7ihpai/wish/218661855