Questions tagged [allen-ginsberg]
Questions about the works of the American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997) and his life as a writer.
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Are there archives showing the nature of the relation between Allen Ginsberg and Communist parties/regimes?
Allen Ginsberg was not a member of the Communist Party, but was (apparently until 1981, late in his life) a supporter of communism.
And he was indeed accused of being a communist by a political leader....
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To what extent (if any) was beat literature a deliberate rejection of modernism?
A key point of modernism is that it was self-consciously "artistic" in the sense that it deliberately sought to find new literary forms, built on and alluding to existing works in the canon. ...
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Repeated mentions of eggs in poems by Allen Ginsberg
I've been listening to Allen Ginsberg reading his own poetry, and I've noticed a repeated mention of eggs in them. For examples:
who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg
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What are the "animal heads of the flowers" in Allen Ginsberg's Transcription of Organ Music?
Here is the original text:
The rambler vine climbed up the cottage post,
the leaves in the night still where the day had placed
them, the animal heads of the flowers where they had
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In "Howl", what does "Blake-light tragedy" mean?
In the passage from Ginsberg's "Howl":
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war
How should the hyphen ...
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Why is Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" dedicated to Carl Solomon specifically?
The poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (which can be read online) is partly a savage general commentary on society and partly an expression of solidarity for the institutionalised fellow writer Carl ...
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What did "Moloch" represent in Allen Ginsberg´s poem "Howl"?
In Allen Ginsberg´s poem "Howl", what did "Moloch" represent?
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
Moloch! Solitude!...
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Whose were the "best minds" being destroyed in Ginsberg's "Howl"?
In Allen Ginsberg´s most famous poem "Howl", he claims he was witness to the destruction of the best minds of his generation:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving ...
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