Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) defied simple classification.
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Analysis, meaning and summary of Allen Ginsberg's poem Those Two
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This poem is eco-critical in nature and brings into spotlight the hazardous effects of modern technology on the natural order. The first tree represents the voice of nature against the alarming growth of machine at the cost of nature. The second tree, in an ironic mood, asks the first tree to accept the reality as it is.