Sunflower Sutra
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Sunflower Sutra is a poem by Allen Ginsberg that blends vivid imagery and social critique to lament industrial decay while affirming a resilient, spiritual beauty in America.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunflower Sutra canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| addressedTo | sunflower ⓘ |
| associatedWith | San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| author | Allen Ginsberg ⓘ |
| containsSocialCritiqueOf |
American consumerism
ⓘ
industrial society ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateWritten | 1955 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Howl
ⓘ
surface form:
Howl and Other Poems
|
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | Beat poetry ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
American countercultural literature
ⓘ
later environmental poetry ⓘ |
| imagery |
machinery
ⓘ
railroad tracks ⓘ smoke and soot ⓘ sunflower ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
apostrophe
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imagery ⓘ repetition ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th century American poetry ⓘ |
| meter | irregular ⓘ |
| movement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| notableLine |
"Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?"
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"we're not our skin of grime" ⓘ |
| partOf | Allen Ginsberg's early poetic oeuvre ⓘ |
| placeWritten | Richmond, California ⓘ |
| publisher |
City Lights Publishers
ⓘ
surface form:
City Lights Books
|
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
America
ⓘ
Howl ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | none ⓘ |
| setting | railroad yard in Richmond, California ⓘ |
| symbol |
sunflower as corrupted natural beauty
ⓘ
sunflower as resilient spiritual core ⓘ |
| theme |
American identity
ⓘ
critique of materialism ⓘ environmental degradation ⓘ hope ⓘ industrial decay ⓘ redemption ⓘ spiritual beauty ⓘ urban and industrial blight ⓘ |
| tone |
lamenting
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prophetic ⓘ ultimately affirmative ⓘ |
| yearOfPublication | 1956 ⓘ |
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