Beats As A Counterculture
Mike Kupferman
Freshman Comp 1
Amy Washburn
October 10, 2002
The Beats As A Counterculture
Many of the Beat writers wrote in a style known as spontaneous prose. Allen Ginsberg often writes in this style. He does so in the poem "Howl" in which he rants and raves about society via his friends – Jack Kerouac, Willaim S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlingetti, and Neil Cassidy to name a few, live. He discusses their poverty, civil disobedience, the ways that they fight society, and his personal fight against industrialization; he uses many images in order to allow the reader to understand his lifestyle, the lifestyle of his friends and points of view, specifically their rejection of society.
Ginsberg depicts the deprived environment in which he chooses to live in through imagery. For instance the speaker proclaims: "Â…Dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix."(Ginsberg 62) This is a scene depicting an average morning after a night of......
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