The World Is a Beautiful Place, B Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote his poem, â€Å"The World Is a Beautiful Place†¦,† in 1955. It was a time of war and suffering, especially due to the imminent Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement beginning in 1955. In this poem, Lawrence Ferlinghetti reveals the world’s disguised beauty with his distinctive poetic patterns, rhythm, irony and unique style to illustrate the connotative perception of the world and how the world and life itself can truly be beautiful no matter how long it takes for one to come to such conclusion. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem, â€Å"The World Is a Beautiful Place†¦,† is written in a ping-pong pattern. To the reader’s eyes, this poetic form can be confusing and stressful to interpret, or understand, the poet’s†¦show more content†¦Then, finally, the author depicts the bright side of our world, its revealed beauty after previous sufferings and lost dreams, as people begin â€Å"smelling flowersà ¢â‚¬  and â€Å"living it up.† Surprising and unexpectedly, Ferlinghetti stops the world’s, and life’s, beauty with the word â€Å"but.† It seems as if in the midst of all happiness there will always be a â€Å"but† that take a turn for our hopes and dreams. By reading through the lines, the reader will see that Ferlinghetti is not really depicting the world’s beauty, yet he is ironically depicting the search for its beauty. For most, the world’s beauty is hidden, thus one may not vision such a beautiful world through all its suffering, dying, and people starving. For some, it may take a lifetime to finally reveal our world’s beauty. However, Ferlinghetti uses irony by conveying that after the lifetime it would take to find our world’s beauty and happiness, it would be too late to enjoy it because we die, or are soon will die; this could be referenced to Carpe diem, since Ferlinghetti conveys the idea that one should seize their prime and take advantage of this beautiful world that is available to us before our time is up. This would be compatible with the old belief that those in their prime are the wise ones. People are not wise simply because they are old, it is because they have experienced the world and life itself, and have acquired the valuableShow MoreRelatedThe Beat Generation Essay1538 Words   |  7 Pagesrivaled only by the likes of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burrough. But what exactly is the Beat Generation? What does it mean? Who of note was involved? When did it take place? The â€Å"Beat Generation† is a play on words, implying that the participants had been beaten down. The Beat Generation at its core is a collection of post-World War II authors who started to gain notoriety around the 1950’s (Schwartz, Richard A). The Beat Generation can also be classified as a literary and political movement, starting