Contemporary American Fiction

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Ginsberg 's America

The interpretation of a poet is based on narrative , concrete images tone , timbre , voice and a series of enjambments , end stops and characterization . In Allan Ginsberg 's poem America he seeks to identify the narrator with an entire country , no small feat . This essay will seek to analyze what poetic devices Ginsberg uses in his poem in to create a sympathetic character and use empathetic devices in to create a rapport between the narrator and the reader p

Although Ginsberg knew classical poetry , and taught it at Columbia in New York City , his style of poetry mimicked his hero Walt Whitman that is to say that Ginsberg free style writing to any formal form of poetry such as Shakespeare 's iambic pentameter or Dante 's quatrains Thus , the poem America reads almost like an intimate letter because the modern day reader doesn 't feel hindered by the sing-song of meter but is allowed to more closely be engrossed in the more casual tones which Ginsberg employs in his free verse writing style . That is not to say that Ginsberg doesn 't use enjambments or end stops that other more formal poets (even Whitman ) employed but that the poem is almost like a monologue with a few places that allow for that formal style . In fact the reader is wont to interpret the poem as though the narrator (that we may guess is Ginsberg with the use of...