Ghosts and Ginsberg


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    Topic 2: Ghosts and Ginsberg
    Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?/when did you look at your
    skin and decide you were/an impotent dirty old locomotive? the ghost of a loco-
    /motive? the specter and shade of a once powerful mad American/locomotive?
    (‘Sunflower Sutra’ 20). 

    Strange Prophecies anew! She wrote—‘The key is in the/window, the key is in the
    sunlight at the window—I have the/ key—Get married Allen don’t take drugs—the key
    is in the/ bars, in the sunlight in the window./Love,/your mother’/which is Naomi—
    (‘Kaddish’ 57).
    Drawing upon relevantideas from chapter 18 of Bennett and Royle’sAn Introduction to
    Literature, Criticism and Theory, discuss the presence of
    ghosts in any two poems by Ginsberg that we have studied this semester.

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