Pie Glue: The Sanctimonious Institution of Marriage

Gregory Corso's poem "Marriage" is a lucid example of how John Clellon Holmes described the Beat Generation: a display of "moral degeneration." The speaker of the poem is torn between submitting to the non-conformity of the Beats and conforming to society's strict views about marriage and social structure. The presence of conflicting thoughts- whether or not to get married and looking at the prospects of marriage from two different viewpoints, gives this satirical poem a lot of weight as a plea against the phony social construction that is marriage.
The poem starts off with questions that are not, under usual circumstances asked by young eligible men. Yet these rhetorical questions seem to have the answers, sarcastic and satirical answers hidden in them. The speaker of the poem, a young man, ponders if he should “be good” (line 1). Being “good” is what everybody expects you to be, and the definition of this “good”......

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Title: Marriage By Gregory Corso
Approximate Word Count: 1624
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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