What does this excerpt demonstrate about the culture of the beat generation?

Hamlet: ] it will but skin and film the ulcerous place, whiles rank corruption, mining all within, infects unseen. confess yourself to heaven; repent what’s past; avoid what is to come; and do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker. —hamlet, william shakespeare what is the central motif in the passage? the passage of time madness disease and decay gardening

Andy bernard laughed at my joke, spitting out his water. complete thought incomplete thought

Life is a barren field frozen with snow. what literary device is he using? a.metaphor b. simile c. personification d. none of the above