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Comment 1 of 1, added on April 11th, 2006 at 1:53 AM.
This poem is just an excellent example of the genius of Ferlinghetti. While
the entire book "A Coney Island of the Mind" is fantastic, this poem truly
does stick out. The mixing of concrete and abstract images helps paint a
picture that the reader could feasibly encounter in his or her everyday
life. The best line of the poem, in my opinion, is "a girl ran in, her hair
was rainy" It's so sad and and so unique in it's phrasing. To call someones
hair rainy, I don't know, that line is the one line that will haunt me and
inspire me at the same time; haunt me in the fact that I can never be
1/100th as good as Ferlinghetti and inspire to try.
beatdowntoyoursoul from United States
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This poem is just an excellent example of the genius of Ferlinghetti. While
the entire book "A Coney Island of the Mind" is fantastic, this poem truly
does stick out. The mixing of concrete and abstract images helps paint a
picture that the reader could feasibly encounter in his or her everyday
life. The best line of the poem, in my opinion, is "a girl ran in, her hair
was rainy" It's so sad and and so unique in it's phrasing. To call someones
hair rainy, I don't know, that line is the one line that will haunt me and
inspire me at the same time; haunt me in the fact that I can never be
1/100th as good as Ferlinghetti and inspire to try.
beatdowntoyoursoul from United States