What “enumerations” does Ginsberg list?
Identify a feeling that Ginsberg conveys with his use of style, structure, and theme. envy toward the shopping families and for their cars and homesresentment toward the changes of the modern worlda sense that the speaker feels out of place in 1950s Americaan acceptance that the speaker cannot change the modern world
How does the structure of the poem emphasize these “enumerations”?
What are the effects of Ginsberg’s list of images? Check all of the boxes that apply.They keep the poem simple and easy to imagine.They create a feeling of sensory richness.They present a series of allusions.They create a single, focused image.They make the people seem like products in the market.
How do the speaker and Whitman disobey the laws of consumerism?
The poem reflects Ginsberg’s relationship to Whitman by showing Ginsberg’s belief that he is continuing down Whitman’s lonely path.desire to know Whitman in the 1950s.belief that Whitman could redeem the modern era.
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