Read this stanza from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California." Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage? In this stanza, the speaker wishes

The speaker asks whether they will dream of the “lost America of love,” linking the journey through the supermarket to a longing for an earlier, more hopeful America. The stanza addresses Walt Whitman, so the speaker is imagining the America associated with Whitman’s time, not simply wishing to return to a quiet home or own a car. Choice A best captures that nostalgia.

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