He is an American who had an unhappy childhood. He sees mankind as materialistic and wants them to renounce those instincts and live in peace. He falls in love for the first time in a penny candy store as his heart tells him "too soon, too soon!"įerlinghetti awaits a "rebirth of wonder" in the form of patriotism, religion, the secret of eternal life, the end of war, sexual discovery and great writing.
He questions his memory when he realizes that the fields of his memory were really streets. In his dreams, he conquers all though reality continues. Ferlinghetti sees the poet as an acrobat trying to catch Beauty, but he may miss her. He reinvents Paradiso as a place where people are naked and there are no angels explaining the perfect monarchy and Inferno as a place without fires or altars in the sky except for the fountains of the imagination. He has not lain with Beauty but he has slept with her in his bed and spilled out poems which are her offspring. He recalls a night where he was wowed by a dame but the next day found that she had bad teeth and hated poetry. In "A Coney Island of the Mind," Ferlinghetti says that the poet is an observer who sees the surface of the world. His general tone is forlorn and pessimistic, seeming to despair of life and the current situation of the world and the people in it. The title of the book is "A Coney Island of the Mind" which Ferlinghetti explains symbolizes a circus of the mind or soul, showing his frame of mind when he wrote these poems.
The poems reflect his opinions and beliefs about many aspects of society and the world. Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the poet, author, and narrator of this collection of poems. Lawrence Ferlinghettiappears in A Coney Island of the Mind, Poems
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