Allen Ginsberg

I like Allen Ginsberg. Of all the poets we have read this semester and looking for the modern voice I see him as being a bridge nothing too special but a team player. But hey what can you do not all are winners. He is a very good poet just not the one I was looking for to help me out. His contribution I think to the progression is his casual and direct references to specific things rather than mask them behind a vail like some other snotty poets do. I see him as a conversational poet in dialogue with the world.

In A Supermarket in California, he is going off on what he sees around him and the contribution of Walt Whitman to the scene. I really like his poetry I just have no idea how to explain it. It is so conversational and direct that it doesn't really need it. In this poem there is a lot of consumerism and modern society and how the small parts are all moving at once. Whitman and his every mans writing ties in with Ginsberg as they are writing to a similar audience. The Supermarket would be the perfect place for the two of these poets to meet. They have that same attitude towards society and it shows in this poem. Where are we going Walt Whitman?