Allen Ginsberg, an influential poet, wrote unconventional pieces of work. Allen Ginsberg was born, in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday June 3, 1926 to Louis and Naomi Levy Ginsberg (poetry 1) from having a rough life from childhood to adulthood it had an impact on his writings and poetry. Therefore having a rough life he had different sexual preferences that made him different during the beat movement in 1950’s. Hence when someone who has been scarred from their childhood to adulthood; someone like Allen Ginsberg who expressed himself with his feelings and ideas in his poems. Poetry is an expression of your feeling and ideas using distinctive styles and rhythms (dictionary) Everyone uses their own styles and rhythm which makes every poet different; using your own style and rhythm makes you an artist with uniqueness such as Allen Ginsberg in “Howl” which was published in 1956 (RSS)
To begin with, the mother, in the family plays a big role for a child growing up. Naomi Levy Ginsberg Allen’s mother was very influential in the life of poetry of Allen. According to Ann Charter …show more content…
During this period of history according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Disorders of DSM-I being homosexual was suffering from a mental disorder called “sociopathic personality disturbance (archive 1) being a homosexual openly would be hard at this time in the 1950’s because people had preconceived ideas of sexual perversion which caused conflict in society. At this time in history expressing your sexuality was more on the conservative side. This is what made Allen Ginsberg an unconventional writer, he was open and honest about being a homosexual. Even if Allen was disliked by many because of his sexual preference he eventually became an influential writer that was part of a