Eating By Galway Kinnel

Eating Blackberries
In this poem he talk about the beauty of eating blackberries and the art of picking them. He expresses the feeling of eating them and the prickly stalks he feels just when hes about to enjoy them. Galway nonchalantly compares blackberries as the aesthetics of words and language.
He exulting in the beauty of language and words. Galway is attracted to the richness and indulges in words which are like blackberries. He uses simile like picking a blackberry from a tree like picking words off the tree of knowledge. "fall almost unbidden to my tongue / as words sometimes do..."
Galway personify's the blackberry like words but realistically blackberries do not offer knowledge but the nutrients and the taste from it are very similar and enriching to the taste buds. But the taste buds is your mind and brain.
I think this poem is very simple and sweet. He shows the reader his style of writing and getting his message through without complication or uneasiness. I like the way he is able to compare food to knowledge of words. Although both realistically different still the conclusion and feeling is often very similar and can be related to.

In Golden Gate Park that day by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

As reading through the poem i realize a sense of cliche throughout the poem "which was the meadow of the world ". He repeats a certain sentences which resemble one another as the poem progressed.This poem represents a couple on a normal outing from the females perspective. The females perspective is truly emphasized upon. Lawrence uses simple imagery which the reader can easily imagined. Which we can sense and picture the emotions as well.
What I'm so curious about is why the man in the poem brought a flute to the meadow although, he mentions its never played. The symbolization of the flute is just a sense of aesthetics? Although it may seem like a simple poem is their an underlying subliminal.
Through the poem just before the end you'd figure they are a happy couple, who are jolly, happy, and in love. But during the end "and finally looking over at him without any particular expression except a certain awful look of terrible depression" Could she have felt a sense of unhappiness from what seems to be TOO perfect? In this poem we find heavy imagery, strive for utopia, and paradise. Lawrence write this poem setting the scene as a beautiful day in the park but only underlies the inner perspective between a relationship, and gender.

The Beat Movement// "America" - Alen Ginsberg

America

This poem seems very controversial. Allen writes the poem with a certain attitude of spite and anger. He write to America in a political view and a representation of what he's experience though out his life. It seems like he is talking about the post or pre-World War 2 with the fight against communism and foreign Asian policy. He is stating his cultural, political aspects and references.
Allen also refers to events that he recalls throughout his life. The structure and the irregular text seems to be his signature of his poetry writing.
At first in the poem he seems as if America has done so much damage. Through the poem he talks about the Asian society and how his relationship with the Asians has been. Allen also uses slurs which could have been acceptable during that time. Poem seems to be unorganized no punctuation, long run on sentences, and lil reference or similarities to each continuous line. The main point of his whole shows his reaction, point of view, and political perspective. The long run on sentences show his true feeling of built up run on emotions he's been keeping inside. He first seems to be spiteful against America but to only find out a part of him is America. Then he seems to ridicule a taunt America for the militarized culture, and the vapid media.
He wrote about America as if he was a lose lover. He tries to find a basic foundation of similarities between him and his country. But his attitude still sends a patriotic message. Allen admits that he cannot "give up my obsession." It is an obsession with the promise of America, with the things that he once believe deeply in: justice, tolerance, freedom, and acceptance. Only to be a disappointment.