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Hello world! (Cheesy I know…) I suppose I should begin by introducing my topic of discussion and the purpose of this blog. For our final project our class- American Literature in Popular Culture- (engl247, check it out on wordpress) was given the option of creating a blog as opposed to writing a final paper. Being the internet enthusiast that I am I chose to create a blog. I can assure you the belief that this would somehow be less work never once crossed my mind… never. Sadly even if it had, I was terribly, horribly mistaken. (I promise I’m coming to my point bear with me.)
During the course of my young life I have discovered that I have a very love/ hate relationship with America. While I am fascinated with her popular culture (particularly the music and film industry) I have a deep, intense desire to throttle almost all of her political leaders, and sometimes even some of her citizens. I can however, assure you I am not the only one who is torn between loving and hating America. As Canadian citizens It has become part of our popular culture to criticize and bash America. It is perhaps because of the fact that I am guilty of sometimes jumping on the “I Hate America” bandwagon that one poem in particular stood out to me during the course of our class. This poem was Ginsberg’s “America”.
My initial interpretation of the poem was something like this: “Sweet!”- oh the intellectualism. After my initial star-struck reaction I eventually came to the conclusion that Ginsberg was criticizing the ideal American citizen. It was later pointed out to me by my professor that Ginsberg was not protesting these set of values and morals, this way of life, rather Ginsberg was presenting a new set of values and characteristics for a new type of American citizen. Thus from my love, and complete fascination of this poem came the birth of this blog. I promise my analysis will be more educational than my introduction.
... America ... 
