“Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees/add shade to shade, lights out in
the houses, we’ll both be lonely./Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love
past/blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?” (“A Supermarket in
California”, 14-5).
“. . . angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo
in the machinery of night” (1).
“One time I thought she was trying to make me come lay her—flirting to herself at sink—lay
back on huge bed that filled most of the room, dress up round her hips” (“Kaddish”, 50).
Critically examine the theme of desire in two poems that we have studied this semester. What kinds of desire do the poems explore and how is desire represented? In your response you must engage with relevant ideas from the Bennett and Royle chapter on “Desire”.
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