Which lines does Bob Kaufman use to show alienation and isolation in modern society?

Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness

by Bob Kaufman (excerpt)

[Diggers, corkscrewing cleanly in, exhilerausted, into the mind mine,]

impaled on edgeless shafts of subtle reminiscence, green-

walking across the belts and ties.

[Slanted dark-walked time, wet with ages of dryness,]

[Raga of insignificance & blessed hopelessness.]

Raga of sadness, of madness, of green screamed dreams, mile-deep

eyes.

[The greatest men have gone unknown:] Buddha was the twenty-

fourth.

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Bernard Middleton

15 November, 14:57

Which lines does Bob Kaufman use to show alienation and isolation in modern society?

Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness

by Bob Kaufman (excerpt)

[Diggers, corkscrewing cleanly in, exhilerausted, into the mind mine,]

impaled on edgeless shafts of subtle reminiscence, green-

walking across the belts and ties.

[Slanted dark-walked time, wet with ages of dryness,]

[Raga of insignificance & blessed hopelessness.]

Raga of sadness, of madness, of green screamed dreams, mile-deep

eyes.

[The greatest men have gone unknown:] Buddha was the twenty-

fourth.

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Porter Romero · Answer 1

The lines that Bob Kaufman uses to show alienation and isolation in modern society are the following ones: "The greatest men have gone unknown ... " This is to say that there must have been many great people who could do so much, but given the omnipresence of isolation and alienation in our contemporary world, everyone failed to notice such people as they didn't stick out from the crowd.

Laura Mclean · Answer 2

Rafa of insignificance & blessed haplessness

The greatest men have gone unknown