【正确答案】正确答案：A Supermarket in California is a prose poem with an irregular format that does not adhere to traditional poetic form including stanza and rhyme scheme. In the opening line, the poet addresses Whitman, or Whitman"s spirit as he finds himself "shopping for images", which Douglas Allen Burns suggests puts a capitalist spin on the situation described in the poem. The narrator sees families of consumers shopping in the market alongside the figures of deceased poets Lorca and Whitman, both of whom were homosexual poets like Ginsberg himself. The poet notes the sexuality of Whitman as he describes the character as a "childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys". Betsy Erkkila, in Whitman the Political Poet, suggests that Ginsberg brings Whitman into the poem to show the difference between the America described in the works of Whitman and that which exists in 1955 when A Supermarket in California is written. In her opinion, "America" is not described as being a physical place but one that exists in the imagination of the poet and can "live and die only with him".

【答案解析】解析：本题比较金斯堡与惠特曼诗歌风格的异同，事实上就是分析金斯堡《加利福尼亚的集市》。