Allen Ginsberg HOMEWORK

I really enjoyed this poem specifically because it was very straight forward and used simple language but also was able to deliver a strong message that is hard to miss.  Ginsberg is taking a task well known to human existence, laundry, and turning it into a way to rid the world of all the bad humans have done to it.  It is a striking comparison because similarly people do laundry and they dirty their clothes, something they are responsible for and that causes them to have to clean them.  This stays true when he discusses different parts of the world saying things like, "I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap, scrub up Africa." This relates directly to issues discussed in his poem that exist still to this day but are ignored and not taken care of.  Ginsberg is able to take a very effortless task such as doing laundry, or pouring something down the drain, (line 9), and weigh that against something not even the most intelligent species we know to exist can resolve.  I also found it very interesting what he chose to name his poem.  The title Homework I think symbolizes our responsibility to take care of something, but in the same sense as known to be with homework, lazy people do not take care of it.  So in a way I feel as though Ginsberg is calling all humans who are part of the problems he mentions, basically all of us, lazy and irresponsible.  The same words you would use to describe someone who does not do their homework for school.