How do the speaker and Whitman disobey the laws of consumerism? ✔ by sampling items but not paying for them The poem reflects Ginsberg’s relationship to Whitman by showing Ginsberg’s belief that he is continuing down Whitman’s lonely path. desire to know Whitman in the 1950s. belief that Whitman could redeem the modern era. Identify a feeling that Ginsberg conveys with his use of style, structure, and theme. envy toward the shopping families and for their cars and homes resentment toward the changes of the modern world a sense that the speaker feels out of place in 1950s America an acceptance that the speaker cannot change the modern world