Bart Allen

Allen Ginsberg’s poetry not only allows us insight into his personal unrest, but also the unrest of the American political system. By looking at both America and Howl, Ginsberg’s disgust of the political system and the socio-cultural pull it has on Americans becomes ostentatiously clear. The tension that is sensed in Ginsberg’s poetry is often a personal struggle in dealing with the unruly American way and attempts at forcing people to conform, especially during life after WWII. These poems are…

U.S. authorities had been closely looking into Stanford Financial Group and investigating the certificates of deposit because of the returns that they were providing to their investors. In addition, the fact that the company’s assets showed an increase of 7 billion in a time span of only seven years (2001-2008) also seemed sketchy. As Stanford’s criminal case states “The indictment alleges that, in fact, approx. $5 billion of SIBL’s reported assets consisted of notes on loans to Stanford and…

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet and journalist. Whitman was born May 31st, 1819 in West Hills, New York. He was considered one of America’s most influential poets. In 1855, Whitman self-published one of the landmarks in American literature today, the collection Leaves of Grass which has been revised and expanded throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was different in style from that of any poet in his Era. In his poetry, his use of linguistic styles, metaphors, and…

“A Supermarket in California” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg. Taking into account of the speaker’s past magnificent works, it made me think the author is trying to analyze his self-identity. Conceivably, this is Allen Ginsberg himself looking for a deeper connection with feelings of emptiness in his sub-consciousness. Is the author creating more space in his own sovereign reality? In other words, is this creating less dense by clearing out the disconnected emotions and readjusting with…

This reading tells about Americans poets of the nineteenth century, and how these poets laid an important and cultural foundation for American poetry. These different writers developed an audience for poetry in the United States. It begins focusing on two main poets. These poets are Whitman and Dickinson, they overshadowed all the other poets during this century. Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. During his time of writing he was part of the transition between…

William Henry “Bill” Gates III is an American entrepreneur, who co-founded Microsoft. “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important” (Gates). Mr. Gates scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. He is a college dropout at Harvard College. When he was in college, he chose to major in pre-law. However, he took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses. Microsoft is the world’s largest…

Ginsberg: For the Better "HOWL" is one of the greatest poems ever written. Orchestrated by Allen Ginsberg, "HOWL" reflects the mastermind that Ginsberg was. His innovative style of writing has passed the test of time and is well known among the scholarly crowd of American society today. One quality that Ginsberg possessed was that he challenged society in every possible way. He raised questions on institutions not previously scrutinized during his time such as the education, government, law…

The poems “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “I Too” written by Langston Hughes each express similar and different attitudes towards America. Both writers each have their own perceptions of America that they have written about in their poems.The attitude expressed in “I Hear America Singing” and “I Too” are both wanting equality along with the poem “I Too” wanting to end racism. There are some major differences perceived in both these poems on the author’s perspective on America. One…

Allen Ginsberg began writing “Howl” circa 1954, a time when homosexuality (and sexuality in general), profanity, vulgarity, and illicit drug use were so tabu that even writing about such subjects was considered illegal and warranted arrest. Ginsberg’s poem should be read with the understanding of how progressive, revealing, and dangerous it was within the contexts of society. It shattered walls, gave a voice to the vagabonds, free-spirits, artists, and erotic people of not only America but the…

Whitman and Hughes Comparison Essay The two poems we have studied and analyzed, Walt Whitman’s “I hear America Singing” and Langston Hughes’ “Let America be America Again”, each have very different central meanings. Both poems show the authors’ outlooks on America, Whitman’s being positive, and Hughes’ being negative. The tone and diction that each of these very successful authors choose to use in their writing come together to create the central message and the mood of the poems,…