ENG364Y1 Study Guide - Thermonuclear Weapon, Adrienne Rich, Randall Jarrell
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Ginsberg had an influence on the bob dylan & the beatles. Post ww2 was published the same year as lolita: a lot was going on culturally at the time. The second most important poem of the 20th century the first was the. Reaction against domesticated modernism: everything at that time (poetry) had become very tame & controlled. Ginsberg wanted poetry where poetry is the experience, instead of being about the experience. There is a lot of form in this poem (contrary to what was said about the text by some of the experts during the trial) How do you account for messiness and chaos after war? (men after war, etc. ) The poem is in 3 parts: first section is 78 lines, 1979 words - no period, & only 1 sentence, visionary poem, subject, predicate, object, the i doesn"t return until the 3rd part of the poem.
