Marriage Gregory Corso Analysis

In Marriage, Gregory Corso satirizes the conventions and rituals of courtship, marriage, and sexuality by contrasting his imagination and individualistic nature with the norms and expectations of society. The poet examines his bizarre impulses as well as his inability to cope with the practical matters and responsibilities of a husband, father, and worker. Corso also asserts that love is actually lost or too frequently obscured among all the social usages, practices, and customs regarding marriage. As such, the miracle of love should not be reduced to mediocrity or even trivialized. Marriage ends with the celebration of passionate love as the essence of marriage is love, which should be illimitable and subversive. Therefore, true marriage is

However, the stamps are used as a challenge to the confinement of the bourgeoisie and thus suggest what is beyond the confinement. Further, books, stamps, and the portrait show the narrow boundaries of the middle class life and represent what lies in the confines of the boundaries in addition to confronting those limits.

The poet continues his attack on the middle class persons by fantasizing how the mayor would come for his vote, Mrs. Kindhead collecting for the Community Chest as well as the milkman, which is an indication of the traditional social structure. The Community Chest indicates the philanthropic organization that gives money to the poor from the middle class people while the milkman represents the common aspect of the suburban locale. The poet uses the mayor as a symbol of the political organization in society.

The poet engages in mad behavior as his actions fail to match the circumstances from a character sneaks into a neighbor’s house to show the excess the bourgeois tries to avoid. As such, the poet continues the tension between excess and conformity. The poet is thus torn between the clandestine manner of upsetting the middle class and the appearance of conforming or loudly challenging the middle