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Sep 09, 2005 15:32

I've become obsessed with this poem in the last few days ( Read more... )

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jmmorton September 9 2005, 07:46:55 UTC
It had been long time since I read that poem. Thanks for making me listen to that. I hadn't realized that there were so many parallels with T.S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, didn't you think?

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annabelle_sweet September 9 2005, 08:05:08 UTC
I was actually thinking that he's got to be referencing Whitman in some way, probably partially in response to "I Hear America Singing."
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752
And then there are two other Whitman poems, which I just now found and kind of think Ginsberg must have loved...
A Clear Midnight: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15883

and then this totally beautiful one (and possibly a warning to Ginsberg, decades earlier)--
To You: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16082

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