“America” is a poem by Allen Ginsberg in
the collection of Howl and Other Poems
written in 1956. This is an era of Cold
War with an intensified conflict between the so-called democratic America and
the communist Soviet Union. The poem contains many rhetorical devices which
strengthens the themes of the poem. In this poem, the poet personifies “America”
as a lost lover, and adopted a very disappointed tone to have a, seems like,
dialogue with the lover. He uses the devices of sarcasm, irony to accuse the
America of chasing after its own profit for its international status rather than
focusing on the humanity. As a whole, this poem exemplifies a good work with
the rhetorical devices of irony and sarcasm and it also aroused the national
reflection on the American problems.
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