allen ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. Louis Ginsberg his father, was a teacher and poet. Allot of his work was in the new york times magazine. Ginsberg's mother Naomi Ginsberg was diagnosed with paranoia, and she died in an asylum in 1956. Her tragic life is the subject of Ginsberg's poem 'Kaddish', which was written in one 40-hour session as a compensation of her funeral service.

Ginsberg poem kaddish almost had tears coming down my face. It tells so much detail. It almost paints a picture of how ginsberg acted before and after his mom died. My favorite line is ''I've been up all night talking reading the kaddish aloud, listening to ray charles blues''. This shows how i think his main goal in the poem is to paint a picture of his feelings. The structure of the poem i think is free verse. The tone is very sad and long.

Another Ginsberg poem is ''Father Death Blues''. When i read this i was confused if this was a poem or a song. The whole poems rhymes, and through out the whole poem he names allot of other peoples deaths like ''old uncle death don't hide your bones old aunty death i can hear you groans. It was really weird reading this one.

I am not sure how you can tell if a poet is distantly american. I have read allot of Allens Ginsberg peoms and everything is about death and i think parts of the bible. There is not one poem he writes that is about anything outside of america, But allen ginsburg is american.