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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor Last Line: By man poet's eyes astounded in the fire haze, / carbon gas aghast Subject(s): United States; Air Travel; America | |||
22,000 feet over Hazed square Vegetable planet Floor Approaching Chicago to Die or flying over Earth another 40 years to die-Indifferent, and Afraid, that the bone-shattering bullet be the same as the vast evaporation-of-phenomena Cancer Come true in an old man's bed. Many chimneys smoldering, city flats virus-linked along Delaware bays under horizon-smog- airplane drifting black vapor-filaments above Wilmington--The iron habitations endless from Manhattan to the Capitol. Poe! D'jya prophesy this Smogland, this Inferno, Didja Dream Baltimore'd Be Seen From Heaven by Man Poet's eyes Astounded in the Fire Haze, carbon Gas aghast! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH |
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