A Supermarket in California carried the dead into the underworld, across the river Styx. The River Lethe was a different river in the underworld, which caused those who drank its waters to experience complete forgetfulness. The shades of the dead were required to drink the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life. In "Story Line", Ian Marshall suggests that the poem is written to show the differences in American life depicted by Whitman and that which faces Ginsberg in the 1950s: "It's the distance of a century—with Civil War and the 'triumph' of the Industrial Revolution and Darwinism and Freud
The Earth Suspended River The Earth Suspended River The Earth Suspended River(地上悬河） is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River，which is a world-famous geographical landscape. Also known as 'the raised bed river', its bed is more than 3 metres higher than the ground. In some places,the water level is even about 10 metres higher than the ground. The yellow river is famous for being sandy with very high sediment concentration. Reasons are as follows: first of all, ascent of this reach is not so big. Besides, both sides of the river are open. Last but not least,the current is gentle too. Above