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BEAT GENERATION - Coggle Diagram
BEAT GENERATION
GENERAL CHARACTERISICS
Free verse and crude treatment of sex, drugs and alcohol
Anarchyc and bohemian life
Reject of social values
Artistic movement developed in 1950's in San Francisco
Name from jazz beat
JACK KEROUAC
Life
Friend with Ginsberg and Neal Cassidy
Traveld trough America
Lived a bohemian life
ON THE ROAD
Coast to coast journey hitch hiking from New York to San Francisco
The and is ambigous
Narrated by Sal Paradise (psudonym of the author)
Written while traveling
ALLEN GINSBERG
HOWL
conversetional rhythm
Many repetitions (mantra)
surrealistisc expressions
Poem about black streets and drug addicts
Manifesto of the Beat Generation
end about people expelled from academies because of their unconvensional vision
Influenced by eastern cultures
Founder of beat generation
Born in a jewish family