Depends on the context, but it would seem like a comparative to me
"A Supermarket in California", by Allen Ginsberg.
The poem reflects Ginsberg's relationship to Whitman by showing Ginsberg's belief that he is continuing down Whitman's lonely path.
<h3 /><h3>Who is Allen Ginsberg?</h3>
Allen Ginsberg first published this poem in Howl and Other Poems (1956), as a tribute to Walt Whitman. Ginsberg imagines following Whitman while he´s shopping in a supermarket. He describes him as a "childless, lonely old grubber", referring to how Whitman´s ideals, those of the "lost America", have not been inherited by younger generations.
Finally, Ginsberg admits he feels the same is happening to him: "we'll both be lonely", he says.
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They look more amture and able to be on their own