What are the other conflicts: social and political, that these poets address?
What other techniques do these poets use to engage the reader?
How are the specific political references to the cold war and the atom bomb in "America" beneficial to creating Ginsberg's tone?
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Good questions, Jessica. The second one, especially, makes me think about how each poet balances between accessibility and "artfulness"/"literary". On one hand, they're trying to bring people together - Ginsberg's stuff has a heavy performative aspect, while Ferlinghetti's pieces are quite populist. On the other hand, they're also loyal to this idea of the "mind" and "art" and "poetry". Repetition, directness, and in-your-face dark tones seem to help the accessibility goal. What could we say is "literary" about the works? Maybe one way to think about this is the way the Beats were working to break literary traditions...
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