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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

"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 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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• Grade Level: High School