![]() The mistakes in the meter are likely purposeful Ginsberg's early poetry suggests that he was fully capable of writing metered poetry. This is a traditional form used, for example, by William Wordsworth. The form would be considered an imperfect ballad stanza, with the first and third lines in each stanza being nearly an iambic tetrameter and the first and third lines being nearly iambic trimeter. He uses allegories and near-rhymes: "those" and "Rose" "us" and "lettuce" "visions" and "prisons," and so on. This is likely a purposeful deviation from his normal style since he, for example, ironically calls symbolic language and allegories useless "dressing" and "lettuce." The style overall suggests a parody of formal poetry. It is unusual for a Ginsberg poem because it is so overtly metaphorical. ![]() ![]() This is perhaps an attempt at understanding. Burroughs, Kerouac suggested the title when Ginsberg asked what it meant, Kerouac said they'd figure it out later. According to legend, while Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were editing Naked Lunch by William S. ![]()
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