Jack Keroac See Past The Skin Analysis

See Past the Skin
Creator and benefactor of the Beats Generation, Jack Kerouac prevailed for his composition techniques and mongrel forms of African American culture, style, and music with a twist of European literary cultures to mirror Kerouac's ambitions of both to join the standard artistic convention furthermore to restructure it (Johnson). The Beats Generation offered a critique of middle class American values. "Beat" differently characterizes as a curtailed form of "beaten down" or of "beatific." The word additionally proposes the "beat" of jazz, whose act of spontaneity and free affiliation emulates in beat written work (Quinn). Kerouac executed the beat style into his poem, Tenorman. By this, Kerouac tries to catch the reader's attention …show more content…
“Sweet”, “sad”, and “young” adds personification making it sound like the instrument acts sweet, sad, and young. A musician becomes “normal” when the music stops. The first sentence means that the tenor and the player becomes someone else and underappreciated when no music plays. The author tries to attach the sympathy to the tenor and making the reader to hone in on and attach themselves to the tenor, drawing them in. The average person automatically connects to something feeling melancholy. Nature just kicks in without us knowing and makes us feel sympathy or empathy. The author achieves this so that he can emphasize the pain that one can feel and to connect with that feeling. Another adaptation of the first line becomes the person that plays the tenor acts as a sweet person, but inside he feels gloomy and agitated about his race (Jazz Poetry). Later in the poem, “Listens to the new Negro raw trumpet kid” (Kerouac 6-7) pops in for a change in pace of the entire poem. The line brings in new information on the race of the player and given the time that this poem takes place; it remains a painstaking time for African American people to receive