Read this excerpt from allen ginsberg's "a supermarket in california." i saw you, walt whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator. why does ginsberg make an allusion to walt whitman in this excerpt? to suggest a knowledge of walt whitman and his poetic devices to suggest an interest in walt whitman and his shopping habits to suggest a critical judgement against walt whitman and other poets to suggest a familiarity and kinship with walt whitman and other outcasts

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings