I got about halfway through the poem before I realized that it was actually about the painting.
I found the poem to be a little too literal for my taste, making sound less poetic. The painting is very saturated and textured and beautiful, but the text just seemed to be bland and lifeless to me. It didn't feel like the painting at all. Besides the title, I would not have put these two art pieces together on my own.
I normally appreciate Ginsberg's work, but I must say that I don't enjoy this piece one bit. I didn't find it to be imaginative in any way. It was very left-to-right literal. It didn't have a very strong insight either. It seems as if the insight was supposed to be in the line "for the other side of the bay is Heaven and Eternity," but it's a very very weak insight. The poem feels like it's trying to rely on the imagery of the painting, but the poem isn't successful by itself- it can't stand up on it's own, or even be an equal accompaniment to the painting.
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