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Allen Ginsberg

The word poetry is derived from a Greek word, poesis, meaning "making" or "creating." Poetry in its simplest form is divided in segments called lines, and often lines are joined to form stanzas in poetry. Stanzas are equitable to paragraphs in prose.(Where the Arts Live n. pag.) The syntax of a line of poetry is a matter which is constantly being recreated. .
             The earliest documented English incarnation of poetry was written in the 9th century by unnamed scribes. The poems Judith and Beowulf were incased in three other works of prose but represented the earliest wholly vernacular works in what would establish the English canon. These poems "are composed in the unrhymed, four-beat alliterative style characteristic of Old English poetry."(Where The Arts Live n. pag.) Poets during the English Renaissance of the 14th century began to construct poems referred to as sonnets. These Poets were characterized by their strongly defined rhyme scheme, the use of Iambic pentameter, and the use of a fourteen line structure. Of this group of poetry the poems written as part of William Shakespeare's sonnets are considered to epitomize the height of the English sonnet.(Sherriffs, Poetry Discussion) Similar to the English sonnet, Haiku and the Ghazal were proliferating around the globe. These two styles of poetry are based upon a rigid usage of syllables . A Haiku is composed of seventeen syllables with a pattern of five then seven and finally five syllables. This form of poetry was perfected during the Edo period of Japanese history during the early 19th century. Ghazals predate both the sonnet and Haiku and originated during the 12th century in the middle east. Ghazals are composed in two-line stanzas "bound by a recurrent sound pattern that is part rhyme and part refrain. While there is no prescribed length for Ghazals, they rarely exceeding ten stanza." During the 19th century a movement began that ultimately would change the syntax and them of poetry.


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1. Allen Ginsberg - Howl

Allen Ginsberg is a very popular and well-known contemporary poet today. He was born in 1926 in Newark, NJ and received his B.A. from Columbia University ... It was the desire to expand the mind and reach the spiritual that inspired Ginsberg to experiment with substances such as marijuana and Benzedrine. He claimed that he was under the influence of drugs while writing the poem "Howl". The poem "Howl," by Allen Ginsberg is a poem that evokes emotion and social awareness of the "illness" and " ... madness" of the people and the American society. Ginsberg's poem is divided into three parts, an...

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2. Allen Ginsbergs

Allen Ginsberg's response to a post-war America is powerful and rebellious, challenging the values of ordinary American citizens and addressing the issues of McCarthyism, consumerism and capitalism that enclose him, in a corrupted American society where Ginsberg and fellow beat writers, and visionary artists were not valued. Ginsberg is never subtle like the wind, but wild and raging like a storm, and consequently so ... apparent state of forgetfulness "on the black waters of Lethe" whereby Americans do not remember how to survive without fridges and supermarkets to supply them with the reform...

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3. Sunflower Sutra

... time themselves with the capacity of a person to speak. Thought and breath in parallel existence give the reader's words urgency , urgency was what Allen Ginsberg felt in 1955 when he looked out over the banks of the tincan banana dock and saw a world wrapped materialism world and being showered with ... of length of line and the amount of breath left in the reader playing a role in expressing the tone of a line is thus continued. Allen Ginsberg felt that poetry had a responsibility to bring a visionary consciousness of reality to his readers. At Colombia where he went to school he was t...

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4. Howl: The Failed Censorship

... Horn, San Francisco, 1957 Prolific, provocative, and revealing of its time. A shot rang out and America's counter culture came running. The shot was fired by Allen Ginsberg, a poet and a prophet of his time musing about the ills of society in his poem entitled "Howl." With this culturally shocking composition came a paramount urge ... disdain to total envelopment. In the Fall, of 1955 at a coffee house in San Francisco called the Six Galler,. Allen Ginsberg had organized a poetry reading in which fellow poet Kenneth Rexroth wass to read and introduce five other poets including ... the v...

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5. T.S. Eliot's

... Allen Ginsberg's Howl visions of the world through the eyes of the poet are revealed. Both men wrote in a post-war era. Eliot wrote The Wasteland following World War I, although he denies that the poem was about the war, there is evidence of the overall feeling during this post-war period. Similarly, Ginsberg ... poetry. According to the text, "T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland changed the course of American literal history." (Harper 1992) The text also states, "Allen Ginsberg brought a raw new power into American poetry with the publication of Howl. Both poets are even compared to Whitman, in t...

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6. THE BOP BEAT

... unbalanced relationship, Beat writers often molded their poetics and style after the playing of such jazz music. "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 structure of creative writing ... apart the language to imitate sound" (Feinstein xx). 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. (National Review ... franchis...

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7. "BACK ON TIMES SQUARE, DREAMING OF TIMES SQUARE"

... individuals known as "Beatniks" rose amongst the masses of the 1950's conformed society, harshly critiquing American living standards. Of the most prominent, was Allen Ginsberg. ""Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square"" is quite obviously set amongst one of the most bustling commercial and social epicenters of America- ... each word a deeper, more distinct view of that image. First, there is an image of a "sad trumpeter." This could be a reflection of Ginsberg in his own writing. In this instance, music and writing are synonymous to art. Just as the trumpeter stands "at dawn" an...

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8. Amiri Baraka

... Volume Suicide Note (1961), he dedicated several of the poems to the poets that he learned from or was influenced by. The two that had lasting influence on Baraka was Allen Ginsberg and Frank O"Hara. Another one of his popular writings includes Blues People (1963), which traced the social and political development of African American music. Some of his famous pieces of ... Movement and black political figures such as Malcolm X. The death of Malcolm X had a great effect on Amiri Baraka. Amiri Baraka had major influence from poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, and Frank O"Hara. F...

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9. Gary Snyder and the San Francisco Renaissance

... these poets had created underground magazines and small presses, which often were the only places to get published. Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts helped to shape modern poetry and to fuel the cultural revolution of the 1960's. On October 7, 1955 at six gallery in San Francisco Gary Snyder ... celebration of tribal ritual. This was the first public reading by several of the poets, some of whom had not met before. The other poets were Phillip Lamantia, Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Whalen, and Jack Kerouac ...

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