What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt
Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets
under the trees with a headache self-
conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for
images, I went into the neon fruit
supermarket, dreaming of your
enumerations!
What are the effects of Ginsberg's list of images?
Check all of the boxes that apply.
They keep the poem simple and easy to
imagine.
They create a feeling of sensory richness.
They present a series of allusions.
They create a single, focused image.
They make the people seem like products in
the market.
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What peaches and what penumbras! Whole
families shopping at night! Aisles full of
husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in
the tomatoes! - and you, Garcia Lorca, what
were you doing down by the watermelons?
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