An Asphodel Analysis

Author: poem of Allen Ginsberg Type: poem Views: 6

O dear sweet rosy
     unattainable desire
...how sad, no way
     to change the mad
cultivated asphodel, the
     visible reality...

and skin's appalling
     petals--how inspired
to be so Iying in the living
     room drunk naked
and dreaming, in the absence
     of electricity...
over and over eating the low root
     of the asphodel,
gray fate...

     rolling in generation
on the flowery couch
     as on a bank in Arden--
my only rose tonite's the treat
     of my own nudity.

                         Fall, 1953

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This poem is not only an extended metaphor but a double extended metaphor. On the one hand, the inebriated Ginsberg imagines himself as a rose. On the other, he imagines himself eating a rose or an asphodel, perhaps alluding to the Lotus-eaters of Homer's Odyssey, thus linking getting drunk on alcohol with getting high on (other) drugs. All this recreates the dream-like state of mind of being drunk or high.

| Posted on 2009-11-05 | by a guest

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