Allen Ginsberg

Comrade Sher Shah Ali’s mild stroke was in the early 80s, almost a decade after, Watergate and Nixon’s presidency was ended, Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem ‘The Jessore Road’. Comrade was not ready for stroke. As if, millions of people could have it but him. After settling on hospital bed, “comrade, your concern about world politics might have had an influence to this stroke business” I alleged; “isn’t it mainly Ronald Regan who should be held accountable for this?” I continued. My voice…

and most successful, era in art. The fifties used the historical views to draw and write some of the most interesting art and poetry of the century. Though the art was spectacular, the historical views were a drastic part of the decade. Allen Ginsberg, a famous poet of the 1950s, called this decade a “dehumanized prison of mainstream values, in which drug addicts, homosexuals, and the poor were defined out of existence in the common consciousness”. Also, the resistance of racism and…

Allen Ginsberg’s “First Party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s Angels” and William Blake’s “The Tyger” both have the idea of describing a hellish world in common with each other. Many of the characters in both of the poems also describe characters that you associate with “hell” or a behavior that’s the opposite from good. In “First party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s Angels” Ginsberg uses the term “Hells’ Angels.” This oxymoron may try to imply that the angels, who are actually demons in disguise,…

Throughout its history, the United States has had countless instances where racial and ethnic tensions were overt and aggressive. For example, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s puts these tensions on display for all the world to see the harsh reality that American democracy was not protecting its minority groups like it was intended. Instead, it was acting against them to benefit the majority. American democracy was created with the intent to protect the rights of the minority from the…

In The Things They Carried, war is seen by Americans as a way for men to show their country’s pride and to prove their worthiness. In this time period war was unavoidable for men between the ages of 18 to 25, the draft forces men to partake in war even if they didn’t want to. Some men fled to Canada, emitted themselves into mental hospitals, and did anything possible to prevent their having to go. Tim O’Brien is saying throughout this novel is that the whole culture of war is patriotism,…

A Picaresque Reading of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) A. Brief Information about Jack Kerouac and the Novel Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 and died in Florida in 1969. Having attended Columbia University where he met the members of the group what would later be called the Beat Generation and some of them would appear as characters in his novel On the Road. However, as it is stated in the introduction part for the novel, ‘’Kerouac, at the age of nineteen, decided that…

existed post WWII and the the personal ramifications of challenging societal values. Composers questioned the commonly held notions of truth, challenging antithetical social dialogues. George Clooney's retrospective film, Good Night, and Good Luck and Allen Ginsberg’s provocative poem Howl condemn the conservative ways of thinking and the perceived…

Today, he is acclaimed as one of America’s most important poets. His works have been translated into almost every major language. Allen Ginsberg, Hart Crane, and Wallace Stevens are some of the few who were heavily influenced by him. Throughout Walt Whitman’s works his style is shown to have multiple traits making it unique to him. He places great emphasis on one’s self as an individual…

in a sense sets the way we perceive things and the way we act in which are influenced and created by American popular culture. The latest craze or what is currently “in” not only structures our society, but the entire world. It was expressed by Allen Ginsberg that “whoever controls the media- the image- controls the culture,.” which reflects how America has a hand in shaping the culture around the world. Since the second world warsecond war world, America emerged as a world power whose decision…

high.” This movement and its message that says anything is suitable for subject matter, is displayed particularly in the works of literature. Three figures emerged as leaders of the counterculture movement, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. These three writers came together to spearhead the movement and whilst their ideas did mesh, each had their…