A Coney Island of the Mind Research Papers

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a collection of poetry which includes the most famous works of the author. The poems possess avant-garde structure and populist tone. Unconventional structure and populist tone transmit the spirit of that times and non-academic nature of the poetry. The Research paper examines the form and language used by Ferlinghetti as well as literary devices used in the poems. A Coney of the Mind presented in the form of independent thoughts. The stream of thoughts creates the rhythmic feel. The sentences are divided into separated syntax and images. The poem starts with the suffering images and carries this concept to the next verse. Irony in the poem plays an important role. The author continues with the reference to Don Quixote windmills with hyperbole. Ferlinghetti ironically claims that in spite of the progress in the society and in the world, people are really stayed the same. The poem ends with the contrast of Goya images to the modern society with personified automobiles. In the fourth poem the author uses alliteration, contrast, assonance and irony to transmit humorous and illuminating dream-like tone. Contrast of “dead flowers and live telephones” is used as a metaphor to describe the modern times where the technology is considered to be more alive than nature.