They'd Try ANYTHING Once!
The Beat Generation was a group of American writers, writers that became relevant in the 1950s, after World War II
elements of "Beat" culture: rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition, which can be seen in most of the poetry written in the Beat generation.
elements of "Beat" culture: rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition, which can be seen in most of the poetry written in the Beat generation.
Breakdown...
This poem is different from most of Ginsburg's other pieces. First, it uses an end rhyme scheme, matching the ending of each pair of lines. Also, this poem is very vague to me. The poem is so short, it feels like the poet almost had more to say, but ran out of time, leaving some sort of a mystery of what this poem is about, and the tone of this poem is not as serious as his other poems I read. However, I did notice some connections in the poetry that are important. For example, in the last set of lines, he says,
"I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild." When he said that he's never dreamed the way that he did, when he awoke, he saw the world as wild because it was nothing like he dreamed. These details within this poem helped me conclude on what I thought this poem was about.
"I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild." When he said that he's never dreamed the way that he did, when he awoke, he saw the world as wild because it was nothing like he dreamed. These details within this poem helped me conclude on what I thought this poem was about.
Literary Devices
"I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild." - Allusion. This is an allusion because they make a indirect representation to how wild the author believed the world was because it was nothing like he dreamed.
Also, the last line could be seen as an hyperbole. This is a hyperbole because it really over exaggerates how the world was "wild" because all hell really didn't break loose, the world was just different than what he had dreamed.
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild." - Allusion. This is an allusion because they make a indirect representation to how wild the author believed the world was because it was nothing like he dreamed.
Also, the last line could be seen as an hyperbole. This is a hyperbole because it really over exaggerates how the world was "wild" because all hell really didn't break loose, the world was just different than what he had dreamed.