Does Ferlinghetti fit into the label of "Rebel Artist/poet of the 1950's"? I would say yes first because of his background. What I mean is Ferlinghetti believes that drugs, the Zen Arts, and physical and emotional love in order to release life, literature, and art from the restrants of societal conformity. And in the 1950's drugs were not use to free your self. Let alone except as an everyday thing. It was an era of good fortune the country was still riding high on the outcome of WWII. And because of our anti oriental views the Zen Arts were very Taboo.
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The second reason I think Ferlinghetti fits in the "Rebel artist/poet of the 1950's" is because of what he wrote in his poem "I am Waiting". In this poem he points fun at what people in the 1950's loved. Like when he said "I am waiting for the American Eagle to really spread its wings and staighten up and fly right" When the american people in the 1950's thought nothing but good things of American society, american thought that everything they did was right and that they were flying right.
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The third reason is in the smae poem "I am Waiting". Ferlinghetti writes "I am waiting for the American Boy to take off Beauty's clothes and get on top of her and I am waiting for Alice in Wonderland to retransmit to me her total dream of innocence" This portrays him as a rebel artist/poet because first sex was not take about especially in reference to The American Boy and Beauty. Second is Alice in Wonderland is all about drugs and is in no way about innocence. And as I have perviously said drugs were looked down upon and everyone once supposed to be innocence. For the pervious reason I think Ferlinghetti fits into the "Rebel artist/poets of the 1950's" .
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Biography Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. ... In college Ferlinghetti had many accomplishments. ... "Overall, Ferlinghetti has had a very successful career in writing. ... Ferlinghetti uses four stanzas in this poem. ... Ferlinghetti's tone in this poem is mostly political. ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Biography Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. ... In college Ferlinghetti had many accomplishments. ... "Overall, Ferlinghetti has had a very successful career in writing. ... Ferlinghetti uses four stanzas in this poem. ... Ferlinghetti's tone in this poem is mostly political. ...
Three Poets" view of the Poem: Macleish, Moore and Ferlinghetti. ... In the poem, Ferlinghetti evokes a very stark image of a poet being like a tightrope walker. ... Ferlinghetti then comments with subtle irony on the relation between the poet and the poem. ... Ferlinghetti finally treats his view on poetry with another ironic verse. ... Macleish, Moore and Ferlinghetti each differ on their views of the poem. ...
Both "A Study of Reading Habits," by Philip Larkin and "Constantly Risking Absurdity," by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, employ allusion, however in "A Study of Reading Habits" Larkin alludes with a sense of irony while in "Constantly Risking Absurdity," the poet does not. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti's allusion to Charlie Chaplin in "Constantly Risking Absurdity" may seem rather small but through its direct nature, it proves significant in emphasizing the poem's meaning. Beginning the poem, Ferlinghetti's speaker immediately draws a compariso...
Ginsberg began with the opening lines: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical and naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix , angel headed hipsters burning for the ancient and heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night- "Howl" goes on to encompass a lengthy three part poem which Lawrence Ferlinghetti owner and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore decided he could do nothing but to publish and the rest, as they say, was literary censorship history. ... Lawrence Ferlinghetti,...
FORGING THE POST-WWII LIBERAL CONSENSUS #1 Institutional Compromise: Welfare-Warfare State New Deal Liberalism + Military Industrial Complex ("Guns and Butter-) Creating a Government based on "Civilian-Militarism- (from the dollar-a-year men to the revolving door between defense-based industrialism and government service). (Take Secretaries of Defense as an example: Charles Wilson (1953-1957), former President of GM, Neil McElroy (1957-1959), former President of Proctor and Gamble, Robert McNamara (1961-1967), former President of Ford Motor Company, Caspar Weinberger (1981-1987), fo...
