Does anyone know how to find out when and why these poems were written:
-Two scavengers in a truck, two beautiful people in a mercedes(Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
-Nothing's Changed(Tatamkhulu Afrika)
if possible, please include social ideas and ethics in the time period and places.
I have already looked on google and Bitesize
thankyou
There are conflicting opinions on what makes poetry poetry. Lyrical poetry...is it really poetry? For example, is Bob Dylan a poet? Once, after attending a Dylan concert in Berkeley with Allen Ginsberg and Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was embittered, ranting about a stringy kid with an electric guitar drawing a bigger audience than a major poet such as himself. In an interview with Robert Shelton, Ferlinghetti acknowledged that Dylan has a poet's imagination, but added, "I still think he needs that guitar."
So, what is poetry? What makes something a poem and not just a song? Paul Garon, for example, has made the emphatic and stipulative pronouncement that all blues is self-evidently poetry and that those who think otherwise must be mentally defective. What do you think?
I asked this question in the poetry section, but figured I should ask it here as well. Thanks for the answers!
There are conflicting opinions on what makes poetry poetry. Lyrical poetry...is it really poetry? For example, is Bob Dylan a poet? Once, after attending a Dylan concert in Berkeley with Allen Ginsberg and Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was embittered, ranting about a stringy kid with an electric guitar drawing a bigger audience than a major poet such as himself. In an interview with Robert Shelton, Ferlinghetti acknowledged that Dylan has a poet's imagination, but added, "I still think he needs that guitar."
So, what is poetry? What makes something a poem and not just a song? Paul Garon, for example, has made the emphatic and stipulative pronouncement that all blues is self-evidently poetry and that those who think otherwise must be mentally defective. What do you think?
Don't let that horse
Don't let that horse
eat that violin
cried Chagall's mother
But he
kept right on
painting
And became famous
And kept on painting
The Horse With Violin In Mouth
And when he finally finished it
he jumped up upon the horse
and rode away
waving the violin
And then with a low bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across
And there were no strings
attached
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Why does Lawrence Ferlinghetti use anaphora in his poem I Am Waiting? I understand the repetition of "I am waiting" throughout the poem is an example of anaphora, but I don't understand why he is using it. Here's a link to the poem: http://www.think-ink.net/visit/waiting.htm
Also, what other literary devices are in the poem? I've found a ton of allusions, but I can't seem to find anything else. Thanks in advance!
my teacher asked me to write a relfection for this poem.
What things do you look for to relate?? or tips on writing a reflection for a poem. thanks! 10 points for best answer
http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Lawrence_Ferlinghetti/SamplePoemFerlinghetti.htm
the poem is called In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See
My paper is about how Walt Whitman uses imagery to convey to the reader that America has freedom and equality- the American Dream- and how Lawrence Ferlinghetti uses historical and literary allusions to convey that America does not have freedom and equality- that it does not have the American Dream.
I'm thinking something like:
The American Dream: Extinct like (an allusion to something historical/literary) or alive like (something with imagery)
any ideas?
This is how it starts:
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America...
and so and so on....
please someone help me im really confused and i have to write a paper bout it!!!
from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the beat poets from the 1950s/early 60s beatnik scene in San Francisco:
A"Be In" couldn't happen again in San Francisco. Not these days. "Be Here Now" was the slogan in the 60s. Now with cellphones and the internet and all, it's "Be Somewhere Else Now."
