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“’Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square’” is quite obviously set amongst one of the most bustling commercial and social epicenters of America-Times Square. ... The repetition and context of “Times Square” in the title is very ironic: he is physically standing on Times Square, yet dreaming, and having ethereal thoughts of the same location in his mind-the Times Square of a different era. Moreover, he is dreaming of an idea and concept-what Times Square represents to him-more than the stones in the middle of the road. ... The “Moon” can be translated as meaning the late night of Times Square, and all of the dank, “lowly” happenings that occur. ... Garver was a young, subversive “issue” and that is what Ginsberg dreams about back upon the street. The repetition in the titles is the juxtaposition of the entire idea of the poem-the conflict of two worlds: the one Ginsberg is dreaming (drugs, sex, and boundless living) and the reality of American society at that moment (forgotten music chords, conformity, individualism, and a mask of the human condition.
Approximate Word count = 927
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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