Burroughs, which also made a large impact with their Beat beliefs and Beat poetry. ... The era Jack Kerouac lived in influenced his work in terms of mood. ... Jack Kerouac's poetry was mainly influenced by his alcohol addiction and religious beliefs. ... He brought society together with his unique style and creative poetry. ... He has taught many to be free and opinionated with their poetry. ...
His poetry is known for its balance of stillness and exuberant energy and incorporates elements of shamanism, the natural world, and living and oral tradition that challenge many western values. His experiences as a logger and ranger in the Pacific Northwest were inspirations for his first two collections of poetry: Riprap (1959) and Myths and Texts (1960). ... During the 1940s there was some confusion, some growing awareness of "beat" or "furtive" terms that described the times. ... Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts he...
Ginsberg invited Snyder, along with many other influential members of the counterculture (such as McClure, Whalen, Ginsberg, and Kerouac) to read his poetry in a San Francisco club. ... In his essay "What Poetry Did in China- Snyder says that Chinese poetry "found a center in the tripod of humanity, spirit, and nature (Snyder, Place in Space)-, and the Beat Generation often tried to connect these three interwoven parts of life. Reading Chinese poetry made Snyder realize that clarity a certain level of clarity can be expressed and reached through poetry, and at the same time "intensify human ...
Between 1848 and 1855 he developed the style of poetry that won praise from Ralph Waldo Emerson and earned readers in England. ... Whitman's influence on later American poetry has been profound, both by the examples of his open forms and by his bold encompassing of subject matter that had formerly been considered unpoetic. Many of his four hundred poems contain musical terms, names of instruments, and names of composers. ...
