... am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Compare this with a more rhymed and classical sounding piece by Whitman's contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodious": "Ye deliverers of Athens from shame! Ye avengers of Liberty's wrongs! Endless ages shall cherish your fame embalmed in their echoing songs (Poe ... ...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... lived the Beat Generation. "The Beat Generation was a group of American writers in the 1950's. Their writing expressed profound dissatisfaction with contemporary American society..."(Search Plus- Beat). Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsberg were the best-known figures of the Beat Movement. They met at Columbia University in the 1940's, and began to write about their set of values. "Beat writing generally ... ...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School