Research Paper On Allen Ginsberg

The Life of Allen Ginsberg

Can a man who was not only gay but experimented with drugs be known as a great poet? Raised among many progressive political perspectives, communist supporters, a nudist mother and having been arrested as an accessory to crimes, Allen Ginsberg is not your typical writer. Many of his poems express his ideas on society and things that affect him personally, such as his mothers’ illness and his homosexuality. Throughout his writing career, he accomplished a lot, starting in high school, progressing into his college career, during his adulthood, into his old age and finally ending in his deathbed. Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey. Later he and his family moved to Paterson, New Jersey.
He was arrested in 1949 as an accessory to crimes, it turns out that the people he called friends hid stolen items in apartment. Instead of serving jail time his professors, Van Doren and Lionel Trilling arranged for him to be admitted into the Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute for psychological disabilities. While serving his term in the psych institute, he met Carl Solomon, a writer and a fellow inmate. Mr. Ginsberg moved to New York to continue his poetry and make a living by working as a book reviewer and marketer researcher. He took a job in marketing researching in hopes for an opportunity to enroll in the graduate English program at the University of California in Berkeley. In December of 1953, Allen Ginsberg left New York and moved to Mexico to explore Indian Ruins in Yucatan. He also sustained experimenting with various drugs; he used drugs as a means of inducing visionary awareness. A year later he fell in love with Peter Orlovsky, a young artist’s model, the two later became lifelong partners. August of 1955 Allen Ginsberg found courage to commend writing his most personal poem, Howl for Carl Solomon. Ginsberg gave an inspired first ever reading of Howl at an art gallery called Six Gallery in San Francisco. He made history at the age of twenty-nine. He touched many people’s lives with the reading of his poem, the audience was astonished, some even cried. Mr.
He wrote mostly to express his ideas about society. Some of his poems were about subjects that affected him personally; for example, his mother’s illness and his homosexuality. Mr. Ginsberg wanted to break free from the limitations set on subject matter. He wanted to be able to express himself more freely. His poems were expressive, explosive, angry, and sexual. Ginsberg wrote spontaneous poems with long lines and sentences. His style was very similar to that of his favorite poet, Walt Whitman. Ginsberg’s poems were emotional and highly charged. His most famous poem, Howl, made him a well-known, political activist who endorsed his First Amendment Rights. Mr. Ginsberg experienced a great amount of trials and tribulations throughout his life. Unfortunately in April of 1997, liver cancer took over and terminated his life at the age of seventy-one. He died peacefully in his apartment in New York City surrounded by loving friends. All of Mr. Ginsberg immediate family has passed along with him. Peter Orlovsky, his spouse, is also