Allen West

“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,…

In the poems The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Let America Be America Again, The Pledge, and I Hear America Singing, the subject of America, along with its government are highlighted towards its intended audience. All four poems stand alongside one another waiting for the curtain call, where they reveal how America is not made out to be the land of the free, dreamers, and peace. Instead is a country that is known for a history of oppression, false accusations, misinformation, injustice,…

There are approximately 7 billion individuals on this planet—7 billion different identities, all of us with a unique personality that is reflective of our own life experiences. Every human being in this world is unique and each individual has different ways in which they learn. There are seven specific learning styles that we as society are meant to fit into: visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social and solitary. And although it 's to be believed that we should fit into one particular…

and Death and Innocence and Experience Some life come or leave this world in everyday. But have we ever think of life and death? I did not think of it until I read two pieces of story, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “Death Knock” by Woody Allen. This two pieces gives me some ideas about life and death, which helps me have a deeply reflection on it. In “The Story of an Hour”, the main character Mrs. Mallard delivers me a new perspective on how we see on life and death. Usually people…