Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." ... The following pages examine Allen Ginsberg's motivations for writing Howl. ... Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark New Jersey. ... (Ginsberg, Allen, Early Journal Entries, 22 May 1938) However, Ginsberg's life would change once he entered high school. ... I haven't the time to be bored"(Ginsberg, Allen, Early Journal Entries, May 1941). ...

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Allen Ginsberg's response to a post-war America is powerful and rebellious, challenging the values of ordinary American citizens and addressing the issues of McCarthyism, consumerism and capitalism that enclose him, in a corrupted American society where Ginsberg and fellow beat writers, and visionary artists were not valued. Ginsberg is never subtle like the wind, but wild and raging like a storm, and consequently so is his "Howl" to America. ... Ginsberg uses repulsive personification to show his personal disgust at America's dirty habits. ... Ginsberg is concerned that Americ...

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Sunflower Sutra is effective both in packaging and shipping the message of Allen Ginsberg and in painting a picture that stimulates listeners to action through zeal finding and amplifying imagery and descriptions. ... The structure of Sunflower Sutra is crucial and an intentional device Allen Ginsberg utilized in ensuring that the listener received just the message that he intended him/her to receive. ... Allen Ginsberg felt that poetry had a responsibility to bring a visionary consciousness of reality to his readers. ... The structure and order of this type of poetry left Allen Ginsberg fe...

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Of the most prominent, was Allen Ginsberg. ... This could be a reflection of Ginsberg in his own writing. ... Simply, Ginsberg implies that he and Garver are shooting up some drug-heroin, cocaine, or crystal meth-with words like "bloody cotton" and "cleaned needles." ... Garver was a young, subversive "issue" and that is what Ginsberg dreams about back upon the street. ... That section alone is eerie, for literature knows that these Beats-Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs-grew as the fathers of deeper thinking, and verbose social critique. ...

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"Jazz writers," such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, upheld their poetic ideals to the techniques of jazz musicians, such as rhythm, improvisation, and call and response. ... The importance of theGarner 4 oral tradition in poet Allen Ginsberg's mind leads him to emphasize the importance of sound; if a work can be sounded out in memory, then it has solidarity. ... Ginsberg is said "to be a gifted public reader and has read some of his poems to jazz accompaniment, as have Whalen and Kerouac" (Benets 3). ... Ginsberg reads his poetry like a mantra, often ending lines with a rising inton...

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Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts helped to shape modern poetry and to fuel the cultural revolution of the 1960's. ... The other poets were Phillip Lamantia, Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Whalen, and Jack Kerouac who decided not to read. Six Gallery 6 POETS AT 6 GALLERY -------------------- Philip Lamantia reading mss. of late John Hoffman-- Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder & Phil Whalen--all sharp new straightforward writing-- remarkable coll- ection of angels on one stage reading their po...

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Although Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs Brought their separate and cumulative madness to the beat generation, it was Kerouac who was the Unifying Principle."... This was in opposition to his friend and fellow beat Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg believed "in grasping after life as much as you can because of it's sweet sadness and because you would be dead someday"( Hipkiss,p.63). ...

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Although Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs Brought their separate and cumulative madness to the beat generation, it was Kerouac who was the Unifying Principle."... This was in opposition to his friend and fellow beat Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg believed "in grasping after life as much as you can because of it's sweet sadness and because you would be dead someday"( Hipkiss,p.63). ...

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"We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself," is a quote made famous by William Burroughs. He was from the East side circle of "The Beats" and lived a interesting and...

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He had several friends whom also participated in the group such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. ... Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsberg were the best-known figures of the Beat Movement. ... "His friends loved the manuscript, and Ginsberg asked his Columbia professor to find a publisher-(Lit Kicks: Jack Kerouac). ...

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The 1950's is known as a sterile, homogenized, consensus-driven society. This image, however, changed in the period of 1952 to 1966 when America experienced a shift in the social norms and civil unrest. Social norms between the suburban families and middle class families changed as well as stereoty...

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(Snyder relationship with JK) when he was first approached by Allen Ginsberg while working in the backyard of his home. 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. ...

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Allen Ginsberg once said, "You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden....

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People have different views about the life. Family situations, social environments, economy, cultures and religions have great influence on how people understand about the life. Human experience also depends on people's education and position in society. An upper class person actually has different ...

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The sixties and seventies were decades of great change in youth culture. It was a radical and turbulent era, and young people were rebelling against parents, teachers, civic leaders and other adults in a new attempt to claim a freedom that they believed had not only been missing, but taken from thei...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree {Davidoff, 199}. American literature has been apart of our history since our settlement. Throughout our history, America has generated many great authors. These authors write works of literature that educate us, entertain us, and empower us. Two great authors that America has generated are Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. ...

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The Thing about the Beats One of the novels that has caused a great impact since it was written until now is the modern classic On the Road, the second novel of one of the most controversial writers of his time Jack Kerouac. The book is considered the first work of the Beat Generation, the name that was given to his small group of friends, that were also writers, of the Columbia University. There are many publishers that confirm the importance of On the RoadFor example, Synopsis tells us in its review: "This novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy" (amazon.com-#1). Also, Libra...

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