Allen Ginsberg make an allusion to Walt Whitman to suggest familiarity and kinship with Walt Whitman and other outcasts in the excerpt "A Supermarket in California".
One of America's most renowned poets of the middle of the 20th century, Ginsberg, wrote the poem. The speaker of the poem is usually Ginsberg himself as he enters the garish, brightly illuminated supermarket and sees Walt Whitman, an American poet of the 19th century, whose work he has been reading. Whitman, on the other hand, behaves almost as if he were an extraterrestrial dropped on Earth from space; from his 19th-century viewpoint, the supermarket setting makes little sense. Before asking his poet guide further in-depth and philosophical inquiries, the speaker imagines playingly tasting the produce without paying for any of it. He questions whether America has become too focused on materialism and a money-centered way of life, and whether this has caused the nation to lose its direction and its ability for love.
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