Allen Ginsberg Influences

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Allen Ginsberg didn’t start as a poet, in fact, he was actually about to go to jail. That is until they came up with an alternative. He was sent to study under William Carlos Williams. He was interested in poetry at a young age, but didn’t start to become interested around the year 1948. He had created other poems after working with Williams. Most of the poems that he wrote were about his life experiences. He wrote about the places that he had been to, whether he was with another person or not. Allen Ginsberg’s representation of experiences is reflective of the places that he’s traveled.

As a poet, Ginsberg had travelled to different places to get a different perspective on things. He had wonder all over the places, just to get a new feel and write about it. His devotion was admired, but also catastrophic. When he wasn’t traveling, he would retaliate to alcohol. He wanted to absorb the feeling that the alcohol gave him and write about that too. He was a good influence when it came to poetry, but his wasn’t a good role model when it came learning different techniques to get certain feelings.

All of his life, he was surrounded by poetry, he just never found an interest in it until he was about to suffer
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He write about different places and what he felt looking at it or actually experiencing something there. Some of his techniques were not the most responsible, but they were reliable in his case. And his actions weren’t causing trouble, but I think that if he would’ve went any further with his process, it wouldn’t wouldn’t have turn out very well, like actually sending him to jail. But if that were to happen, I think that, again, it would have given him a different perspective and he would’ve written about that. Some ideas of his weren’t the smartest, but they had great outcomes when he had written them

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