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William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsberg
1,601 wordsIrwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Louis Ginsberg, Allens dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, Allen's home life was dominated by his mother's bizarre and frightening episodes. A severe paranoid, she trusted Allen when she was convinced the rest of the family and the...
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Horace Mann Beat Generation
1,337 wordsJack Kerouac was the spark that started the flame of the Beat Generation though, through his own eyes, he felt like a failure. Jack keyed the term beat generation in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes, another of the beat generation poets, in 1948 (). The Beat Generation might not have happened without the help of Jack. What formed him into the blunt writer that he was, was his loving family, the death of his brother, movies, college, and newfound friends. Jack Kerouac, baptized Jean Louis ...
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525 wordsJack Kerouac is considered a legend in history as one of America's best and foremost Beat Generation authors. The term "Beat" or "Beatnic" refers to the spontaneous and wandering way of life for some people during the period of postwar America, that seemed to be induced by jazz and drug-induced visions. "On the Road" was one such experience of Beatnic lifestyle through the eyes and heart of Jack Kerouac. It was a time when America was rebuilding after WW I. Describing the complexity and prosperi...
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876 wordsJack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts, in 1922. Kerouac quit school and joined the Merchant Marine, starting the travels which would become On the Road his most acclaimed novel. It is said to be an account of Kerouac's ("Sal Paradises") travels with Neal Cassidy ("Dean Moriarty"). According to Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac typed the first draft of On the Road on a fifty-foot long roll of paper. On the Road gave an outlet of release for the dissatisfied young generation of the late forties and early f...
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Period Of Time Dean Moriarty
1,047 wordsWikipedia encyclopedia suggests the word experience may refer (somewhat ambiguously) both to mentally unprocessed immediately-perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained in subsequent reflection on those events or interpretation of them. Most wisdom-experience accumulates over a period of time, though one can also experience (and gain general wisdom-experience from) a single specific momentary event. In novels On the Road and Saint Maybe, by Jack Kerouac and Anne Tyler, the author...
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830 wordsOn the Road, by Jack Kerouac is a book about the need to wander and the rejection of authority and tradition in post World War II American youth. It illustrates the ethos of the American Beat Generation of the 1950 s: freedom, mysticism, and individuality. Kerouac most likely wrote this book in order to provide a semi-autobiographical account of his own adventures hitchhiking around the United States as well as to provide an account and a rationalization for his wanderings and attempt to explain...
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2,502 wordsThe Beat Generation According to Jack Kerouac, who originally named the Beat Generation (in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes in 1948) and who was its principal chronicler and representative, the Beat Generation had already begun to emerge during World War II. Kerouac recalled meeting hipsters in New York City in 1944 and feeling an affinity with them and sensing that some new consciousness was being born. Anyway, the hipsters, whose music was bop, they looked like criminals but they kept ...
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1,681 wordsGreenwich Village Theater History and its Effects Introduction It has often been suggested that Greenwich Village needs to be discussed within a context of lifestyle rather then any other. This suggestion is perfectly understandable, given the fact that this part of New York is strongly associated with the rise of avant-garde art and theater, in the second part of twentieth century. There were objective reasons why Greenwich Village has always been attracting creative people. Even at the time be...
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912 wordsBorn To the Beat What better way is there to capture history or to sum up a generation of thought, than through literature? To look back into the past to see what events took place and what the mood of the people was, people look to literature. It displays the lifestyles of the time and an intimate peek into the lives of the past. The Beat Generation captures the attitude of kids that had lived through World War II and their perspective on everything from politics to personal philosophy. But the...
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1,782 wordsFriends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself? and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. Thats what real love amounts to? letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending? performing. You get to love your pretense. It? s true, were locked in an image, an act? and the sad thing is, people get so used to t...
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1,059 wordsThe Jim Morrison Jim Morrison The bizarre and exotic lifestyle of James Douglas Morrison all began on 8 December 1943 in Melbourne, Florida. Jim was the child of Steve and Clara Morrison who went on to have two more children, a sister named Anne and a brother named Andy. Morrisons father, Steve, was an Admiral in the US Navy and due to the ever-changing locations his work demanded, the Morrisons constantly moved from house to house and state to state. They resided in Melbourne, FL, Albuquerque, ...
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1,485 wordsOn the Road Jack Kerouac, father of the Beat generation, almost an explorer of American society, documented his journeys across our nation in the guise of Sal Paradise in his signature novel, On the Road. Some felt that this book was an attack on America, and others praise it as the definition of Americas culture. To myself, it was fascinating tail of adventure, people, and life. Kerouac puts into reality what I only dream of. This novel is a beautiful description of life at that time, and menti...
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Society Has Changed Sal And Dean
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Post War Period Rebel Without A Cause
1,758 wordsRebellion in the Fifties During the Fifties the United States was filled with confidence but at the same time insecurity. The United States emerged from WWII as a global superpower and a symbol for freedom. The United States saw its role in world affairs as the protector of free countries from communism. The fear of communism expansionism during the fifties was a major issue. Communism represented radical thinking and ideas, a shift away from conservatism thinking or a shift away from the center...
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Allen Ginsberg Work
880 wordsRimbaud and Ginsberg as Modern Poets Anyone who has read a fair sampling of modernist poetry or studied some representative visionary poets has found the experience something of a revelation. Immediately exhilarating for some, initially intimidating for others and, for all of us, a profound departure from traditional literature. According to Rimbaud, for a poet to be absolutely modern he must become a visionary and a poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless and systematized disor...
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Allen Ginsberg Ping Pong
1,149 wordsSocial Pressures Reflected in Ginsberg's Howl Post World War II America produced a number of images that will be forever imprinted on the minds of Americans. Such images as television shows like Leave It To Beaver and I Love Lucy, movies such as An Affair To Remember, and Brigadoon, are watched frequently even in todays society. But in this world of fairytale movies and the American Dream, what about those who didnt fit into the picture of perfection and prosperity? These men became the basis of...
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