bowery blues
Jessica Nohra
Analysis Kerouac
April 11th, 13
Bowery Blues Analysis
Today’s society doesn’t look at how easy and chill was the past and the people don’t have an interest on how the life is anymore. Kerouac’s message throughout the poem was to show how lost he was and how the people around him influenced his bad feelings about life. During the poem we can really see that he doesn’t know how to act on what is happening in his life.
Throughout the poem Kerouac shows a lot that he is lost in his life, as he states in all the lines of the stanza 2, “ I am hurt/I am scared/ I want to live/ I want to die/ I don’t know/ Where to turn/ In the void/ And when/To cut out.” These lines indicate the frustration and doubts in his life, he doesn’t really know what he wants and how to behave in his life, he is never sure if he should listen to himself because he doesn’t know if he is right or wrong. Kerouac also shows how much his religion has to do in his life as he describes, “ For me no church told me” (Stanza 3 line 18) and “ I can’t take anymore/If I can’t hold/ My little behind/To me in my room/ Then it’s good bye.” (Stanza 4 lines 43 to 47) These quotes shows his beliefs in religions, and in these lines he says that if he can’t stop from drinking then his religions, Buddhism or Christianity, will not be respect as he says “ good bye”.
Moreover Kerouac writes about the sexual desires of a young women as he says “Tight the lovely asses /Of the little girls /In love with sex/Showing themselves/In white undergarments/At elevated windows/Hoping for the Worst.” (Stanza 4 lines 36 to 42) These lines show how they are wasting their times and throwing their lives by doing that because the only thing that they get is the disregard of the other people. During his poem he also talks about drugs “ Just stone” (line 21) it shows his feeling from being high and how to escape from life with the
Analysis Kerouac
April 11th, 13
Bowery Blues Analysis
Today’s society doesn’t look at how easy and chill was the past and the people don’t have an interest on how the life is anymore. Kerouac’s message throughout the poem was to show how lost he was and how the people around him influenced his bad feelings about life. During the poem we can really see that he doesn’t know how to act on what is happening in his life.
Throughout the poem Kerouac shows a lot that he is lost in his life, as he states in all the lines of the stanza 2, “ I am hurt/I am scared/ I want to live/ I want to die/ I don’t know/ Where to turn/ In the void/ And when/To cut out.” These lines indicate the frustration and doubts in his life, he doesn’t really know what he wants and how to behave in his life, he is never sure if he should listen to himself because he doesn’t know if he is right or wrong. Kerouac also shows how much his religion has to do in his life as he describes, “ For me no church told me” (Stanza 3 line 18) and “ I can’t take anymore/If I can’t hold/ My little behind/To me in my room/ Then it’s good bye.” (Stanza 4 lines 43 to 47) These quotes shows his beliefs in religions, and in these lines he says that if he can’t stop from drinking then his religions, Buddhism or Christianity, will not be respect as he says “ good bye”.
Moreover Kerouac writes about the sexual desires of a young women as he says “Tight the lovely asses /Of the little girls /In love with sex/Showing themselves/In white undergarments/At elevated windows/Hoping for the Worst.” (Stanza 4 lines 36 to 42) These lines show how they are wasting their times and throwing their lives by doing that because the only thing that they get is the disregard of the other people. During his poem he also talks about drugs “ Just stone” (line 21) it shows his feeling from being high and how to escape from life with the