Comparing Walt Whitman And Allen Ginsberg's A Supermarket In California
Romanticism focused more on imagination, emotion, nature, and beauty. On the other hand, the modernist era was the era of social and political unrest, hence, modernist poets focused more on the redefinition of the social, political, economic orders, and technological advancements. America’s political, religious, economic, and social values was reshaped during modern era and this influenced poets too. I agree with Allen Ginsberg, he was comparing what America used to be to the present America referring to Walt Whitman’s work, in his poem A Supermarket in California because Whitman was the father of modern American poetry. Whitman work, the Leaves of Grass was controversial when it was published because of the explicit nature of the way he described