New York Beats

My first response to Frank O'hara's "Ave Maria" was that I agreed. I agreed to what he was saying. The mothers are being so protected, over protected, of their children. Let them experience life and let them learn from it. The poet is trying to tell the mothers to let loose. Let their kids go to the movies now while they are young. And while they are out, it serves as relax time for themselves. Other wise when they grow old they will be too dependent on their mothers. And they will spend their adulthood trying to catch up with the things they missed out on.

I enjoyed Gary Snyder's "Four Poems for Robin." I read it for the first time and I had a liking to it and I do not know why. It was just so appealing. Maybe it was the read. It was easy to understand. The diction was clean and simple. There was not much to interpret. Maybe it is the setting: flowers, moonlight, beach. Very romantic. I enjoyed how the speaker would so easily reminisce about his past love. The smallest things would trigger lovely memories of her. It was also sad that he was unable to move on. He was forever waiting for her to come back to him. Always wondering if she would ever love him again.