Alan Ginsberg once said,’ Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private’. Literature is certainly a source through which voices of the oppressed can be asserted and illustrate the true harsh reality that society has been feared to expose. Alan Ginsberg’s poems showcase the true power of poems and how it utilized to convey issues that society seems to be ignorant of due to authority. ‘America’ is a significant literary work of Ginsberg as it essentially a tirade that is directed towards America and its government about various sensitive political issues which enabled him to voice his frustration towards the country. In another work,’ A Supermarket in California’, he …show more content…
It has the effect of creating awareness of certain issues that society seems to be ignorant of and it illustrates the emotions of the poet that enable the reader to obtain the poet’s perspective. It is also gives the poet the opportunity his perspective of how the world should be.
Literature has been utilized for centuries with the primary purpose of conveying various problems with society that people of America seem to choose to ignore. In the poem ’America’, Ginsberg addresses various political problem with America. In the fourth line of America, Ginsberg directly addresses a question towards questioning, ‘when we will end the human war’. The following line Ginsberg insults America by saying, ‘Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb’. He first utilizes a rhetorical question that is posed towards the American people to reflect upon the effect of constantly resorting to war in terms of human cost. In the rhetorical question, the poet utilizes words such as ‘we’ and ‘human’ which indicates that perhaps he was trying focus on the human aspect of war and the fact that war need not necessarily against some opposition as it instead wars can also happen within the mind of human being. In the