Howl and Leaves of Grass

I am sorry to post this so late since I was working on my science presentation and paper these days.

Here is the question: Compare and contrast Howl and Leaves of Grass. 

The idea is different: 

Howl is considered to be one of the great works of the beat generation. It criticizes the people in that generation for their sexual, open and alcoholic life. In his opinion, America is falling apart. 

For the Leaves of Grass, Whitman glorifies the energetic America which gradually became the best country in the world. Additionally, Leaves of Grass shows Whitman’s great love to his country. Thus, compared to the idea in the Howl, the idea here is more positive since it was really passive in Ginsberg’s work. 

The format is similar: 

In both of their works, the formats are pretty similar to each other. I guess the main reason for that is because Ginsberg sets Whitman’s format of writing poems as a model. They both start with a idea, and use some examples to prove that.

The Love Song of J. Alfred - T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a posem by T.S Eliot. It shows the two most important characteristics of Eliot’s early poetry. First, it is strongly influenced by the French Symbolists. Second, the use of fragmentation and juxtaposition. 

This story happens at a unpleasant night. In the beginning, Eliot describes the scene around the street. “half-deserted” street, the yellow frog and smoke, makes it more uncomfortable and dirty. In the next half of the story, Prufrock wants to know a girl. However, he is hesitated since he does not look well. He does not know how to start the conversation. At the end, he chooses not to go, and the story ends in the sad mood. 

I think this poem expresses Eliot’s sense of isolation and loneliness, and his inability to fit into a world that he perceives as hostile. He thinks, to be a creature like a crab which is protected by a thick outer armor and better still is better for him. So that, he does not have to truly interact with anyone or care about what they think of him, or he of them.

Project 7: My Hemingway Project

I am sorry for this empty projects, I did not mean to do this. Actually, I was going to put something here on Thursday, however, as you told us the people who had AP or SAT could have more time to do work, so I just left this blog here and reviewed for the test in the next few days. I am going to do the work in today's class, and during the study hall tonight. I will try to finish the paper as soon as possible.

I think the project is going well now, and I already had the basic idea of the paper. Therefore I do not think it will be hard for me to do the paper work. By the way, thank you for the extra time to review for the APs and SAT 2 tests, I think I did pretty well in those exams.

Again, I am really sorry for the empty blog here. Additionally, I will do another blog post tonight to show the process of my project paper.