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Many of the themes of "Hadda be Playin' on the
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The reiterated phrase "Hadda be..." is heard at the beginning of every line, giving each line rhythm, It has been taken to indicate a sense of futility by
Ginsberg, in that there was nothing anyone could have done to have prevented the litany of outrages he described, and yet which remorselessly
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utilising what appears to be "an improvised set of variations". The poem, says
Spiegelman, begins relatively neutrally but becomes increasingly political: "a denunciation of organised crime and its connections to national politics".
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1980, in "Birdbrain!". That same year, in "Capitol Air", he would compare
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posits that although a motif of conspiracy runs through the poem, Ginsberg is not actually supporting such a view of history as factual; rather, he is demonstrating "what runaway paranoia looks like"
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