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Go to "How to Read a Poem" https://poets.org/text/how-read-poem-0

and then read the poem ‘Attached’ by Allen Ginsberg "A Supermarket in California"

Attempt to interpret the poem. I recommend doing a search online to understand who Allen Ginsberg is and what he struggled with to better understand the poem. You may use a "biographical lens" to interpret the poem.

Biographical Criticism: This approach “begins with the simple but central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work.” Hence, it often affords a practical method by which readers can better understand a text. However, a biographical critic must be careful not to take the biographical facts of a writer’s life too far in criticizing the works of that writer: the biographical critic “focuses on explicating the literary work by using the insight provided by knowledge of the author’s life.... [B]iographical data should amplify the meaning of the text, not drown it out with irrelevant material.

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