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Lamantia also has a poem entitled "Man Is In Pain"(155, Poetry). Allen Ginsberg in his poem "Sunflower Sutra" portrays the masses as sunflowers in a dirty railroad yard. And finally, Jack Kerouac in his book The Dharma Bums portrays the masses as "sedentary bums"(86) and as "millions of the One Eye"(104).  

Religion in Walt Whitman's Literature "Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?……I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones." (pg 40)Nature and all of her wondrous facets, especially the human body, was Whitman's religion. Walt Whitman was indeed an intensely spiritual man in his own unconventional way. His epic classic "Song of Myself" demonstrates these attitudes of his, and in his view how the proverbial "poet" of his America should believe. Humanity

The poem Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is a descriptive poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Night of the Scorpion & Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes The poem Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is a descriptive poem where the poet (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) observes two garbage men in San Francisco and two well-paid people in a Mercedes. The poet's observation is really about the way the garbage men look

Young nonconformists reveal how one particular mode of idealizing youth is an American convention that hinders the progress of past and present generations. The speaker proposes an alternative way to idealize youth because young Americans can disrupt expectations and enforce change. Celebrating young Americans who do not live up to America’s expectations allows Ginsberg to celebrate the majority of young people. Realizing the harmful effects that stem from idealizing youth forces the speaker to look

such as Fellini, Bergman, Spielberg, Scorsese , and to name a few. These directors are the people that I think have a certain style of storytelling and tone that you can identify quickly. Like Fellini with 8½, I always think of Manhattan as THE Woody Allen film. I always define the ultimate Woody Allen’s style of storytelling is something funny, serious and romantic with a cast of brilliant characters that drives to the extreme ends of human emotion. The beautifully combine comedy, romance and drama

Escaping Alcatraz After the three men escaped Alcatraz the FBI had a 17-year trial. How did the three men escape Alcatraz? The three men were John and Clarence Anglin, Frank Morris. There were four men total involved in the escape. Allen West was the only one that could not get out of his cell through the hole. How did the three men escaped? Frank used a clay head to put in his bed while escaping so when the guards looked at his cell they saw his (fake) head. They used spoons to dig a tunnel

The overall theme in Walt Whitman’s “Drum Taps” is about the way war consumes everything and monopolizes every facet of life; particularly the land the war is fought on. When analyzing the poem, the first stanza talks about the movement of war from the farms, the second stanza talks about the progression of war from the farm to the city. In stanza three this journey continues through the battlefield, through the halls of power and finally into the homes, moving from the public to private spheres

There are many pieces of American Literature that include American Values and mixed emotions. Some writers pushed the details further than others. I think the writers Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane did a great job of writing realistically. They both wrote pieces that people still analyze even today. Therefore, there will be an explanation of Walt Whitman’s, “There Was a Child Went Forth” and Stephen Cranes, “Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind”. The poem “There Was a Child Went Forth” was written

Social Pressures Reflected in Ginsberg's Howl Post World War II America produced a number of images that will be forever imprinted on the minds of Americans. Such images as television shows like "Leave It To Beaver" and "I Love Lucy," movies such as "An Affair To Remember," and "Brigadoon," are watched frequently even in today's society. But in this world of fairytale movies and the "American Dream," what about those who didn't fit into the picture of perfection and prosperity? These men

challenge the purity and spirituality of the feelings Whitman and Doyle had for each other. Many cant figure out what was between them. “There can be no doubt that these feelings transcend those usual to friends or companions of the same sex” (Allen 25). Whitman was a homosexual and many of his poems relate to manly love. “To the serious reader of Calamus, the ‘manly love’ that recurs both as a term and as an idea is of such genuine poetic complexity as to render it a good deal more than