Essay on Allen Ginsberg's 'A Supermarket in California' (1956)

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar zur Vorlesung:American Literary History II (Prof. Dr. E. Boesenberg) , language: English, abstract: According to Michael Meyer poetry in fixed verse 'can be compared to the regular figures of classical ballet, free verse to the variable movements of modern dance, whose patterns are very flexible but nevertheless follow a choreography'. In this essay I would like to take a look at Allen Ginsberg's poem 'A Supermarket in California' analyzing its 'variable movements' in order to get an idea of the 'choreography' it is based on.