Take a simple calculator, or, if you are so inclined, do the sums in your head. Joke Joyce!

The positive side of settlerism was embrication of individual social and economic autonomy, creative self-realization through work, and egalitarian political membership in the American conception of freedom. However, settlerism also had a dark side that excluded those who were not deemed eligible to participate in this egalitarian democracy and used state authority to remove them from the frontier.

Thus far, I have been arguing that Ginsberg's poetry represents an attempt to demasculinize and derationalize American poetry; however, Ginsberg's poetic project also has an aggressively masculine side as well.

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