Allen Ginsberg was born in Jewish family in New Jersey. His father Louis Ginsberg was a published poet and a high school teacher. Ginsberg's mother, Naomi Livergant Ginsberg, was suffered from mental illness which often manifested as paranoid delusions. His experiences with his mother’s mental illness are also frequently referred to in Howl. For example, “Pilgrim State, Rockland, and Grey Stone's foetid halls” is a reference to institutions frequented by his mother and Carl Solomon, ostensibly the subject of the poem: Pilgrim State Hospital and Rockland State Hospital in New York and Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey. It is more noteworthy that another critically acclaimed poem “Kaddish” of Allen Ginsberg is about his mother and her death. In a word, early period Ginsberg spent with his mother became the major inspiration of his works after.
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They lived in it but were not able to do anything to make a difference. Facing toward the hopeless system, Ginsberg talked about right and wrong, ethics and morality and social good, together with young men like him that he met at Colombia. That this small coterie finally was called as "Beat Generation" can be traced back to 1948 when this phrase arose in a conversation between Kerouac and John Clellon Holmes. And these writers started to call themselves as the beat generation to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York. Yet at that generation they were regarded by the mass literary society as a bunch of dangerous hooligans with nothing but sinister vices, such as drugs and “abnormal sexual orientation”. Nevertheless, works of these beat writers still got published and became popular among the young right away in 1950’s. The sentiments and rebelliousness manifested in the beat works thus aroused a strong consonance of feelings in
Speaking of who were the founders of this crew and how they bonded, it …show more content…
They lived in it but were not able to do anything to make a difference. Facing toward the hopeless system, Ginsberg talked about right and wrong, ethics and morality and social good, together with young men like him that he met at Colombia. That this small coterie finally was called as "Beat Generation" can be traced back to 1948 when this phrase arose in a conversation between Kerouac and John Clellon Holmes. And these writers started to call themselves as the beat generation to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York. Yet at that generation they were regarded by the mass literary society as a bunch of dangerous hooligans with nothing but sinister vices, such as drugs and “abnormal sexual orientation”. Nevertheless, works of these beat writers still got published and became popular among the young right away in 1950’s. The sentiments and rebelliousness manifested in the beat works thus aroused a strong consonance of feelings in