What do these lines from Bob Kaufman's "Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness" convey about how the
poet might have perceived mental hospitals and institutionalization? Gothic brain surgeons, weeping over the remains of destroyed love
machines.
Diggers, corkscrewing cleanly in, exhilerausted, into the mind mine,
impaled on edgeless shafts of subtle reminiscence, green-
walking across the belts and ties.
Kaufman sees mental hospitals and institutionalization as inhumane, ineffective, and uncaring.
Kaufman believes that mental hospitals and institutionalization should be the last resort to cure mental illnesses.
Kaufman sees mental hospitals and institutionalization as the only salvation for the mentally ill.
Kaufman believes mental hospitals and institutionalization are destructive for otherwise competent brain surgeons.
The lines from Bob Kaufman's
"Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness"
conveys that Kaufman sees mental hospitals and institutionalization as
inhumane, ineffective, and uncaring. The surgeons only thinks about how well equipped
they are with their machines and they are excited to use this to people with
mental illness without caring the fact that it might be harmful to them.
