is bad music considered to be sad music?

in the wake of the beat generation. Or the lost generation.

Think this touches further on god, not bending to his will. Not bending to the will of the devil either. Kind of in a purgatory state of unsureness.

This part of the poem reminded me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. One of the most important books of the dope decade. "Tooling along the main drag on a Saturday night in Las Vegas, two good old boys in a fireapple-red convertible … stoned, ripped, twisted … Good People.”

I just finished Brave New World over the weekend. One of the closing points of that novel is that in a utopian society there is no point in God. God is dead essentially. When people are seeking maximum pleasure god has no jurisdiction.

"I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown... Although I live in the subconscious, our pale reason hides the infinite from us." - Jim Morrison

the best people are deranged on drugs. Seeking some muddled form of understanding.

Is he talking about freedom through psychedelic enlightenment? I know Ginsberg was a big acid freak. Eternal war with the conscious mind will eventually lead to freedom through insanity? Like Syd Barret for instance.

solitude is abusive. Children should not be left alone they need guidance.

I was reading Hells Angels by Hunter Thompson over summer. Part of that book touches on the Vietnam war protests and how the Hells Angels harassed Berkley protestors. I found it interesting how he claimed saintliness over a group that was largely viewed as a derelict group in society. Even people that just road motorcycles for fun and didn't partake in gangs were outcasts. Is he saying that Motorcyclists are saintly because of their defiance to societal predestinations.?

is this Irony? When two people sense the truth in each other and trust each other, they are together not apart.

when we are able to be passionate about our endeavors it is much harder to be angry at the world. We see it bright and hot. A place of love and vibrance.

she wishes that she could use her energy in a creative manner instead of weaving fabric that will one day deteriorate and leave the hearts of people.

laughing death in the face

it might be a stretch, but the sands of time?

Lotus Flowers, Given to Odysseus' men when they landed on the land of the lotus eaters. Made them feel apathetic and want nothing more than more of the flower. It seems that maybe she wants to feel what it's like to not have to worry about anything. To breath the delusions that the rest of America feels, but she cant. Not until she spreads the word of the oppression she has witnessed and does all she can to stop it.

Imagery of leisure and freedom

Death?

all across the United States. embedded in the soil of the nation.

Rising action. This strength will make them powerful. Not just angry and determined, but humbled from having gone through so much hardship and alienation.

This style reminds me of something Bukowski would write. Tough rigidness of reality.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/galleryL/L_14_1045.b.jpg

This line reminds me of this painting by George Bellows. Many a man has tried to stop his patterns of existence but must continue to play the game laid in front of him. Some play a more privileged game than others as Polo is a game for Aristocrats, however every player on earth must play under the influence of light and dark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA

This excerpt from the poem reminds me of a Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon. In that song he describes himself as a bridge over the tears and sorrow of a lover or a friend, allowing them to reach the other side without falling into the rough waters. It seems that this man, in this poem is without company and is weeping over his lost lover, "By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept". Leman means a lover/sweetheart. The river bears no friends, harlots, or even garbage to accompany him. All he has is his song, he prays the Thames will remain undefiled long enough for him to finish his suffering in peace.

fate

why are Lilacs used as symbolism so much?

breasts? Mother nature

There seems to be a recurring theme with doctors or people of medicine in "The Poor" and "Spring and All".

if she is referring to the flower, this is ironic because a delphinium has a rather bright bloom. yet their color is darkish blue/purple.

The infancy that made this man ignorant. Will heaven forgive his actions, like the sea forgives the shore?

This makes me think of Henry Adams, more specifically in regard to his thoughts on force. Love is a force that we cannot explain yet it fuels us, empowers us and gives us hope. Like food and peace do on a more physical plain of existence. Yet we are all just waiting to die and love keeps us busy in the mean time, like food sustains us and hope of peace keeps us from lashing out in violence.

Sequence of existence cannot be explained by science. All we can see is the physical or what is presented to us. What lies under the surface is completely and utterly ambiguous, with no hopes to logically equate it. Society tells us lies to create a subterfuge of understanding to fulfill the human beings need to understand, to place some sort of answer on existence. Science in a way defies society and cuts through the lies like butter.