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Themes and Values of the Beat Generation As Expressed in Allen Ginsberg's Poetry Perhaps one of the most well known authors of the Beat Generation is a man we call Allen Ginsberg, who expresses the themes and values in his poetry. He was, in fact, the first Beat Writer to gain popular notice when he delivered a performance of his now famous poem, ƒ±Howlƒ°, in October of 1955. The Beat Generation is typically described as a vision, not an idea and being hard to define. It is characterized as ƒ±a cultural revolution in process, made by a post-World War II generation of disaffiliated young people...without spiritual values they could honorƒ° (Charters XX). Although first condemned and criticized, it became a national phenomenon. Allen Ginsberg expressed the intangible beliefs of this generation in his poems about his childhood, curiosity, war, freedom of thought, and other people. Through Allen Ginsbergƒ­s ideal individualism, he has been able to express the themes and values......

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