The Beat Generation

He produced many works, most notably Howl , which lead be my main coco in showing a coup doeil of the way these writers spoke to the world and w ere vying to be heard. Ginsberg wrote in 1955 and undefiled in 1956, it was his first major work to be published and to be performed in public. The poem gained a lot of popularity in San Francisco in the meter scene. The dummyle itself tells you that the poem will be loud, its mea NT to be heard. It will not be an ode or a sonnet, but a ferocious ululation of all the artistic energy, pent up frustration and solidification that his extension was struggling with.The central t run upe is o en of the struggle of to creation conformed to the American culture and society of the asss and asss, the suffocating need to find their authoritative identity and not be smothered into obedience. Starting off the e poem he says, l saw the best minds of my generation finished by madness, starving hysteric al naked sic Allay 2 (Ginsberg 1), and how h e believed his generation was brilliant, artistic, yet were e driven to madness by society and left vulnerable. They were desperate in poverty and tatters (G insider 1) and were full with dreams, with drugs, with open-eyed nightmares, alcohol and coco and e endless balls (1).These people, this whole generation, who refused to conform, who rebelled w tit their writing and art and drugs and soulful jazz, but the noise of wheels and children brought t hem down shuddering untracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of glower e sic (1). The noise of such a internal scenario is not only a symbol of the normal life the y are trying hard to escape, but also the death of their brilliance and artistic notions. To this generation sex was also highly intertwined with their work and their w ay of life waving genitals and manuscripts (3).It was important to this generation to b e liberal, to express everything they felt without dampening the way it was felt, raw and powerful and loud. Th ey valued to be heard and subsequently presented themselves on the granite s tepees of the madhouse with shave heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous s lobotomy (5). I entail one of the most astounding lines in Howl is when Ginsberg says, who cut their wrists terzetto times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to pop en boss stores where they thought they were growing Old and cried (4).