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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

homework-Ginsberg

In this poem by Allen Ginsberg he is telling how he would ride the earth of dirt in comparison to do his laundry. In the beginning he says "id throw in my united states; this tells me that he is from the U.S this could be important because he is talking about many Nations in the poem so knowing where he is from could be important. He talks about cleaning the earth of dirt,sludge, and physical material. he describes how he wants to clean gunk of the sea floors and "rinse down the acid rain from over the Parthenon and the Sphinx these are examples of cleaning dirt of his laundry but the bigger stains come form more dangerous things then dust on a pipeline. He talks about Asia "id throw big Asia in one giant load and wash out all the blood and agent orange" he might be talking about all the violence and how they used agent orange against there people killing many. I definitely like this people because i can relate, i would like to do what Ginsberg is doing in this poem. Even though all this is impossible i think that's what makes it fun to think about.

4 comments:

  1. I agree with you on some points but i feel Ginsberg is speaking about what is currently happening around the world. He uses homework to add a twist to this poem which is really cool and different. I like how you explore his poem and your examples. Allen Ginsberg did a great job for any age group to read and have there own take. Great work Max. Allen Ginsberg mention alot of current events like the "id wash my dirty Iran" and this is funny because we are over there trying to clean up and to me this brings humor, following the next line stating "id throw in my united states, another interesting part that i feel he mean to bring back the troops, or just to stop. I notice many great things about this poem. check my reviews when you get a chance since you get credit for reviewing someone else work. Thanks for reading love young Chris

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  2. I think this poem definitely has applicable references to the world today, but I think the actual poem was written before 1980, - "Homework: Homage Kenneth Koch," by Allen Ginsberg from Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (Harper and Row). Its funny how somethings just haven't changed even tho we've known about them for ever.

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  3. See all other blogs and my comments on this one.

    BTW--anhyone want to comment on the title? What's the "home," and what's teh "work"?

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  4. i think home means the world and work means him trying to spread awareness and fix some issues

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