10/01

I think O'Hara captures modern experience according to Baudelaire's definition very well. O'Hara's poems have no sense of what modern experience is now. There are small connections to any modern experiences, but not many. O'Hara's poems speak to very distinct facts that occurred in the time period in which he was writing, and not ones that could transfer into future times. They are "fleeting". He talks about the specifics while, the specifics for him can only last for the small time period in which he is writing. Cost, Lingo, and areas that he speaks of, do not apply at to what we see now in 2007.