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Resolved Question: How to find out background info on two poems?
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

Resolved Question: What do you think? Is it poetry?
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!

Resolved Question: What do you think? Is it poetry?
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?

Resolved Question: What is your interpretation of this poem?
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

Resolved Question: Why does Ferlinghetti use anaphora in his poem I Am Waiting?
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!

Resolved Question: what shoudl I read on my honeymoon?
favorite books of mine: confederacy of dunces lawrence ferlinghetti calmity physics classics and indie classics

Resolved Question: How do you relate with a poem?10 points?
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

Resolved Question: I am tryihng to figure out a title for my english paper--help?
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?

Resolved Question: I need a Walt Whitman poem to compare to a Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote?
I need to compare and contrast a Walt Whitman poem to a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem. Any ideas on what poems I should use?

Resolved Question: what does the poem 'I am waiting' by Lawrence Ferlinghetti mean?
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!!!

Resolved Question: Like this quote?
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."

Resolved Question: what is the meter, if any, of the first two lines of this poem?
The dog trots freely in the street and sees reality it's from "Dog", by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Resolved Question: Where can I go to find Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Poem # 1"?