Allen Ginsberg's America

It has been established over the centuries that the poet, rather than representing the voice of the civilized, cultured society, is the voice of alienation and separation. Poets of social protest are intended to reside outside of society’s limiting structure, disillusioned by its elitism, social injustice, industrialism, materialism, and by its reckless plummet into a void of spiritual deterioration. Allen Ginsberg’s America is a case in point of such criticism with regards to …

…us alive. The Russia’s power mad. She wants to take our cars from out our garages.” He uses repetition and exaggeration to make the scathing poem’s point with a comic twist. In his poem Ginsberg points out that America’s fears of communism is not only ridiculous but also dangerous to the rest of the world in that instead of being concerned with material things Americans should just enjoy the beauty of life.