Poem Analysis A portion of Alan Ginsberg's poem, Howl...
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves
through the negro streets at dawn,
looking for an angry fix, angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection, to the starry
dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high, sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water
flats floating across the tops of cities,
contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El, and saw Mohammedan angels staggering
on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating, Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among
the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the
windows of the skull...
According to Ginsberg, in what sorts of activities did people of his generation partake?
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Song Analysis

Soon-yi's house has a hexagonal window made up of six identical equilateral triangles as pictured below.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: little we see in nature that is ours; we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! the sea that bares her bosom to the moon; the winds that will be howling at all hours, and are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; for this, for everything, we are out of tune; it moves us not—great god! i'd rather be a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; so might i, standing on this pleasant lea1, have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; have sight of proteus rising from the sea; or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. 1lea: a grassland what phrases in this poem make elements of nature seem big and powerful, or sweet and beautiful? second part: the changes of the industrial age, including those leading to the agricultural revolution, still affect people’s lives. choose a modern song or a television show that idealizes rural life or compares rural life to urban life. how does this song or television show describe city life and the countryside? cite evidence from the performance to support your answer.

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