I agree with the ideas both Paul and Lily pointed out. Imagery is a very prominent factor in this poem and combined with the knowledge of the Beat Generation, the poem becomes much more decipherable. Now the references to drugs and sex in the first part is more understandable; before I just thought that this was very random and did not make much sense to me.
I agree with your thoughts about part three, Lily. It seems like to me that Ginsberg is being sympathetic to Solomon, with each repetition of “I’m with you in Rockland” adding more emphasis to his message. Ginsberg continues to describe where Solomon is as an “abyss” or “mad house” to show how sorry he feels that Solomon has to endure such alienation, which could be the experiences writers had during modernist America. I guess, in a sense, Ginsberg wrote the third section to portray how there were many other writers who were alienated more in modernist America than himself.
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