Jack Kerouac

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…

devout prohibitionist.” “Yes, isn’t it? That’s where Lindsay and the Beats differ dramatically. We tend to enjoy alcohol. Have you been to Vesuvio’s yet?” “Yes, I was there Friday night.” “Jack and Allen and I used to drink there a lot. In fact, they’ve got a special drink there called the Jack Kerouac. It’s a small bucket of rum, tequila and orange juice. “We also drank at Li Po’s Cocktail Lounge in Chinatown. It’s named for the ancient Chinese poet who loved drinking rice wine while…

most surprising statement appears quite at the beginning: Almost all theorists, says Cotkin, who have so far reviewed and analyzed Frank's work, have done so without paying closer attention to said link between the artists (21). They do mention Jack Kerouac, maybe even quote the Beat author in their texts, but, argues Cotkin, leave it at that. For a student like me, only beginning to explore Frank's oevre and trying to classify his photographs into the canon…

“Tramps, Hobos, Beats and Crusties” There is something romantic about hearing the sound of a train in the distance. It has a way of enticing the imagination--it conjures up sepia images of hardship and freedom, and leaves us with an unexplained longing. It is as if the railroad links us to our country’s past, a nostalgic reminder that some things never change. In 2008 I spent the better part of a year hopping freight and hitchhiking from Maine to Washington. Although I only rode a handful of…

In Jack Kerouac's novel, The Dharma Bums, the main character Ray Smith meets Japhy Ryder who lives a simplified life. Japhy lives in a shack where he lacks items such as chairs that many people take for granted. He does not want more than he can handle and Japhy only wants to handle what he needs to survive. Ray notes that even Japhy's meals are simple yet delicious. Japhy is careful to only cook what he needs and to take only as much food as he needs to live. Kerouac introduces the idea of a…

Post-war America was a place where people conformed to what mainstream society wanted them to be, but some individuals wanted no part of that system. These individuals included Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burrough, also in a looser sense artists such as Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac was the person who initially coined the phrase “Beat Generation”. The main group of Beat poets were people who attended Columbia at the same time. Even though these poets were all highly educated they…

since they were old enough to imagine a future, it has been in jeopardy”. Growing up between two world wars and amidst the Great Depression was motivation for the Beat Generation to live in the moment, and not to focus very far into the future. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were the two most-famous Beat Generation writers, and as their fame developed so did the movement…

mostly on transcendental experiences. The character Neal Cassady, who was the driver of the Further, was also an inspiration for one of the main characters in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Kerouac is seen as a symbol of the Beat Generation. (Beat Museum). When Kesey and Cassidy are in New York, a party happened to introduce Kesey and Kerouac. Meeting did not go well. This is seen as direct correlation between the two…

“That outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions.” In the novel, she lived her life outwardly as though she was comfortable and filled with happiness however, inwardly she was confused. Like Edna, Sal Paradise, main character of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road felt confused with how his life was turning out. Sal was living a mundane life until Dean Moriarty turned his apathetic emotions into the love for adventure. Dean was a poor con–man who just ran around from one city to the…

"I have a dream!" (Martin Luther King Jr) Words have the ability to refine us as humans. Alike to words so does literature. The poems that we’re going to discuss in the following paragraphs have impacted countless of lives by illustrating the reality of racism and depression by using figurative language, subject material and poetic devices. We can see a difference between the poems “Watermelons” and “Harlem” in the titles alone. Harlem is focused on the dreams of the people who live there “what…