any rhetorical questions. The subject of an after life comes up, Ginsberg is pondering what his mother is doing after she died. It ends with part of a Jewish plsam. Their is one line in the first section that sticks out “All the accumulations of life- that wear is out-clocks, bodies, consciousness, shoes, breasts, begotten sons, your communism, “paranoia” into hospitals”. This is a list of all the things that Ginsberg says aided to the death of his mother-time, age, awareness, fatigue, womanhood, childbearing, personal views, and society’s beliefs. In saying this, Ginsberg partly blames himself for the death of his mother. This thought ties the first to the second part, which details a trip to the metal hospital and Allen taking his mother to New Jersey where she believes that the spies will not get to her.The second part of the poem is perhaps the hardest to interpret and certainly the longest. Ginsberg mentions the times of the “gray” depression. He does have a point by saying gray; which is a word that means bleak as opposed to great which is used more often in a positive sense. The name of Franklin Roosevelt is also mentioned- “invisible bugs and Jewish sickness breeze poisoned by Roosevelt”. This alludes to either the poison of the atomic bomb or the poison of the Holocaust- that Roosevelt could have prevented.As his mother was ill, so was the society she lived in “silent polished desks in the great committee room…Crapp the gangster issuing orders from the john” As his mother’s life was failing, so was the innocence of life. Corruption was taking over and poisoning America and Naomi Ginsberg. When Allen mentions his brother Eugene and how he becomes “Gentile like”, the tone is not one of respect or admiration. The Jewish culture was dying as young Jewish men dropped their identity, and so was Naomi Ginsberg. Whatever advice Naomi gave her so...
