Allen Ginsberg

artists and musicians, Jim would perform his poetry at an open-mic night on Sundays at the contemporary. And that’s where Morrison meets an ex UCLA college ray manzarek. During his high school life he discovered the works of poets jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg who were interested in Buddhist philosophy. “They were trying to achieve truths by the use of alcohol and drugs, especially psychedelic ones, such as LSD (Arcyman). That was often used by Morrison and most of his inspiration and drug…

Eighty degrees’ summer days always seem hotter inside that building. Sodium from my sweat stinging my eyes, and that aged industry fan struggling to perform to perfection as I do. I yell “I AIM HIGH” starting a chain reaction that demanded others to follow. We were all born poets, and taught to use every disadvantage to our advantage. My surroundings became my platform; after all the great William Shakespeare said it best “All the world's a stage. “Being a member of the DGSW taught me…

America is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg, in the year 1956, during a time of extreme anti-communist sentiment. In the poem, we see a clear sense of hatred and resentment towards the United States, and also the political climate of Western society in the 50s. This was also a time period of great economic boom, yet based on the poet’s words, it seems as if he is left out of the party. Therefore, due to the distaste the poet displays towards America’s power status, and his complaints about his…

Jack Kerouac’s Fictional Style: A Critical Study Abstract This study entitled “Jack Kerouac’s Fictional Style: A Critical Study” aims to explore the ways in which his thematic, linguistic and structural pattern dealt in his fictions. This research shows Jack Kerouac’s literary influences. It also shows Kerouac’s fictional style and its narrative design. This further study presents Jack Kerouac’s employment of automatic writing style and his spontaneous methods. (Keywords: Experimental Prose,…

mother, and it's very likely that mothers today feel similarly. Finally, in Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California," we get an account of the narrator's trip to the grocery store. People watching at the grocery store is nothing new for me as I do it all the time, and I'm sure many others do too. This poem delves into the topic of homosexuality. Both the poets Ginsberg mentions in this work, Whitman and Lorca, and Ginsberg himself are homosexuals. Homosexuality in America is still a…

Honors English IV Mrs. Andrews 23-November 2015 LSD LSD-25 was among one of the drugs that CIA scientists tested, LSD seemed to have one of the highest potential for use in intelligence gathering. The CIA studied and utilized LSD extensively from the early fifties until 1963, when they stopped using it. Psychologists, who had been steadily building data that supported the therapeutic side of LSD, they were forced to stop their research. Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert of Harvard…

under forty according to The New Yorker and Granta (Cline 197). Moreover, the New Yorker named Alexie one of the top twenty writers for the twenty-first century (Anonymous 35). Chadwyck-Healey (1) stated that Alexie was influenced by the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Jess Row, and the prose of William Burroughs. Alexie produced three novels, nine books of poetry, and two collections of short stories in less than nine years. Alexie’s 2007 book, The Absolutely True…

Janis Joplin, who was born on January 19, 1943, grew up in a typical tiny town in Texas during the 1940s and often felt like an outcast. Her craving for the heartfelt blues was a response to her isolation. She relocated to San Francisco, a city known as a sanctuary for uniqueness, in the mid-1960s. At this venue, she honed her mesmerizing vocals and stage presence to the point where she became a member of the rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. But she still had her insecurities, and…

Bob Dylan’s Lyricism: A Countercultural Perspective Abstract: Bob Dylan, a songwriter, poet and a 2017 Nobel laureate in literature is often portrayed as the guiding spirit of the sixties counterculture. Dylan’s politically committed songs in the 1960’s articulated a vision of society that was radically different from the existing political realities. The paper highlights the cultural resonance of Dylan’s radical lyricism amidst the countercultural era. It depicts the close affiliations that…

The CIA has over 60 years history of smuggling drug into certain American neighbors and cities. The CIA was created from the National Security Act of 1947. The CIA has been involved in heroin trafficking from the Turkey-Marseille’s connection to the Asian Connection in the early 1950’s to the 1970’s. But the CIA was mostly noted for their involvement in the cocaine epidemic in 1980’s. Before I write about the cocaine epidemic of the 1980’s. We should look at the involvement of the CIA in…