A Supermarket In California By Allen Ginsberg

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“A Supermarket in California” written by Allen Ginsberg, illustrates a colorful happy supermarket where the speaker strolls through. Later on, we come to find that the speaker finds his crush or another man that he is interested in, Walt Whitman. The speaker shows signs of lust through his constant questioning of Whitman: “Will we wander through silent streets alone?” Throughout the poem the speaker is rebelling against society loving a man of the same-sex in a public place, letting his homosexuality shed light. Through the parallel structure provided in the plot, Allen Ginsberg argues that loving a man isn't any different from loving a woman; there are still questions about mutual feelings and uncertainty.
The symbols we used in our video were the peaches, the penumbras, the book and the boat. These symbols stood for much more than the meaning which was put into the poem. The peaches in the penumbras were used in our video because of the bright colorful colors this poem shares and the colors show the speakers sexuality. The bright vibrant colors help the reader to realize that the speaker is a homosexual. In the poem the speaker describes these bright fruits “What peaches and what penumbras!” Our reasoning for leaving this scene in color helped us to create the same hints the author gave the reader. The book represents the past …show more content…

In this, it expresses how the speaker gazed and dreamed of his adventure with Whitman: “I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel

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