... a poetic one is acute. Clark Coolidge, a drummer and poet, inquires after the relationship, of language and "wordless shapes of time" (Feinstein 255). Music happens between certain constrictions, those of beat and count. Clearly, poetry behaves in a similar manner. Dean Moriarty, Neal Cassady's persona in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, stresses that "we know what IT is and we know TIME and we know ... that everything is really FINE" (Road 208). Time is not oppressive if one knows how to use it effectively, which jazz musicians and Beat poets knew how ... In playing music, this takes on the ...

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... traveled all over China, Tibet, and Mongolia really appealed to Snyder. One day Snyder said to Kerouac "real Buddhists are able to walk around the countryside (Snyder on Kerouac)-. Kerouac agreed and they went on one final trip of the season out into the mountains. A great amount of emphasis was put on Eastern religions and thought by Snyder and his peers. In his essay "What Poetry Did in China ... idea of legalizing hitch-hiking in "Four Changes-, suggesting that there be hitch-hiking stations on the sides of highways to limit the number of cars on the road, a similar idea to our curre...

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... made a beautiful work of art. It takes courage and a great deal of confidence to write a book that is surely to be the subject of a great deal of criticism. Jack Kerouac's book, On The Road, raised many eyebrows. Although it appealed to a great number of people, it also angered many other people. This story tells about a young man named Sal that encounters many different types ... of people as he travels back and forth across the United States. His life is spent on the road and that's where he is at peace. He ... lives of Sal and his friends on the road made On The Road the subject of ...

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