Strong imagery is a key component to a good poem. A poem without imagery leaves the reader unable to relate to the work‚ and it’s hard to enjoy a poem that one can’t relate to. “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg is a great example of a poem with a strong sense of imagery. Ginsberg has a way of digging into the senses and making the reader experience the poem‚ rather than just read it. Interpreting this poem through a formalist lens answers any questions left about the text. The poem
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Disharoon 1 Debra Disharoon Professor Anderson Wrt 101 28 October‚ 2011 “Solitary Sparrow: A Beat Poet’s Desire to be Heard and Understood” Alan Ginsberg was born to Louis and Naomi Ginsberg on June 3‚ 1926 in Newark‚ New Jersey. He came from a proletariat background and grew to be a major influence for the counterculture of the 1950’s and has impacted the lives of people‚ particularly youth‚ for generations. His difficult childhood due to his mother’s mental illness and the resulting stress
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living. These ideas from the Beats eventually expanded into the hippie movement during the 60’s‚ creating a new cultural movement in America. The Beats spread these ideas through their writing‚ such as William S. Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. But the most important novel was Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. On the Road was a semi-autobiographical story documenting Jack Kerouac’s adventures across the country with
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In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Ken Kesey criticizes the expectations to conform to society during the time of the Cold War through the rebellion of many of his characters. In the early 1950’s‚ America entered into a Cold War with the Soviet Union. The situation in the United States was very hostile and many citizens did not approve of military and political decisions made by our nation leaders. One of these citizens was Jack Kerouac. Kerouac became the leader of the Beat Movement
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The graphic novel The Beats: A Graphic History by author Harvey Pekar‚ editor Paul Buhle‚ and illustrator Ed Piskor is an astonishing look into the lives of those who helped to form the Beat generation‚ including Jack Kerouac‚ Allen Ginsberg‚ William S. Burroughs‚ and even the women of the Beats‚ known as the Beatnik Chicks (160). The graphic novel follows the life of Jack Kerouac after he moved from Lowell‚ Massachusetts to New York in 1939‚ where Kerouac would enjoy jazz music and later meet many
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Allen Ginsberg‚ Gregory Corso‚ Bobby Neuwirth‚ and William Burroughs all played a crucial role in transforming Smith into a rockstar. Gregory Corso was a poet who was the youngest of the beat generation and gave lists of dictionaries‚ books‚ and poems to Patti
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Boston Globe (Boston‚ MA) Feb 16‚ 2014‚ p. K.1 Copyright © Feb 16‚ 2014 The Boston Globe. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. Whose Rights? By Ruth Graham • A new wave of fetal-protection measures creates a collision in American law: two sets of rights in one body. In December of 2010‚ Bei Bei Shuai was pregnant‚ alone‚ and in despair: Her marriage had fallen apart‚ and her new boyfriend had broken his promise to leave his wife for her. In a desperate moment‚ the Indiana
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Timothy Leary "Turn on‚ tune in‚ drop out." That saying has turned into the slogan of Timothy Leary ’s mind-expanding movement. Although a graduate of both West-Point and Berkley‚ and a Harvard professor‚ these were not his greatest lifetime achievements. Throughout his publicized life‚ he became the spokesperson of the psychedelic age. His devotion to the belief that LSD and marijuana were gateways to enlightenment resulted in a new church‚ numerous prison sentences‚ and a following of
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What are the main themes of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’? What aspects of the poem would you identify as modernist techniques? What does Eliot’s poem express about the condition of the human subject in early twentieth-century modernity? You need to substantiate your essay on a close reading and critical analysis of the poem. T.S Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ is a prominent modernist poem that vividly reflects his opinion about the impact of World War I’s traumatic experience‚ questioning at the same time the
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poetry‚heavy drug use‚making cartoons of life during that time and bassicly going on a spirtiualistic quest in san fransisco. Thats why this assigment appealed to me because of the life style they chose and what from we talked about in class like the howl and phcydelic pictures‚ i was able to uncover a lot more about poems and articles and important people we did not cover and it was very interesting. First off one of the thing’s that took my interest was some people who bassicly were influntial towards
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