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A 5 page paper that addresses the individual expectations of each of the authors with regard to these works, their personal experience, and how each saw his solution to the complexity and ambiguity in his personal existence in a nation in which it has become increasingly difficult to find a coherent ideology or ethnic identity. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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hundred years later was to write of an America much different than the hopeful, expanding nation Walt Whitman celebrated. By using a poetic style similar to Whitmans, Ginsberg describes
the fallacies of Whitmans view. It isnt that neither author saw the death, the despair, and general atrocities of the human condition, but Whitman accepted these as the transcendent
realm for the soul, and therefore the soul of America. Ginsberg saw these atrocities as the downfall of the American soul Whitman promoted. Through their closely drawn imagery,
they examine their American experience and the ability or inability of individuals to find a coherent ideology or ethnic identity. That their prose
style is similar leaves little room for argument. Whitman writes: "The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom." (151) Ginsberg writes: "who created great suicidal
dramas on the apartment." (Howl 15). The difference is in punctuation, with Whitman responding to the use of grammatical breaks to make the reader search for meaning, and Ginsberg
writing without punctuation for the opposite reason, that there would be no stopping, that the howl would run continuously without time for reflection, creating the howl itself. The exception
to punctuation for Ginsberg is to describe his howling. He writes that he has witnessed: "Ten years animal screams and suicides!" (23)
Whitman writes of "Space and time" (Song 710) as the ultimate freedom and channel for the soul. Of "Time & Space" (Howl 20), Ginsberg wrote that it was
used as an excuse by young Americans sliding closer to their fate. They used it, he said as a means to escape reality, escape their entrapment by the government
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