Allen Ginsberg: The Beat Generation

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.” This quote from Allen Ginsberg showed the feeling of the beat era. Allen Ginsberg, an author, one of the most influential writer of beat generation followed by few others, who practically changed the perspective of many Americans during the beat generation era. But what is beat generation, when did it occurred, how it impacted everyone and the reason behind it. The beat generation is a grouping of authors who started getting noticed during the 1940 inaugurating …show more content…
They created a writing style that was bold and easy to understand which impacted the societies around them. The beat generation wanted to make a difference in society that everyone overlooked.
Conformity played a huge major rule during the 1950. Many in the 1950s thrived for the comfort that they pictured as shown by the media where everyone lived happily. But despite what American believed, there was still racism, poverty, stereotypical about women and people that were less fortunate due to poverty. Conformity was everywhere in America. The beat generation writers denied the conformity and showed the dark side of that era. They wanted to rebel against the government. They wrote books, poem that denounced mainstream culture of Americans and wanted to uncover the dark side of an actual reality. This allowed people to fight for what they believed in rather than following the social norm and the american beliefs of having a good life. Instead the movement allowed them to be able to have their own …show more content…
Poetry went through changes of relaxation that made anyone express themselves in the form of anything. The beat writing had no limits. There was more room for creativity and writing on topics that was banned in the society. This made it possible for beat writer to break down barrier for certain fundamentals of writing and expression. The beat writers wrote about anything, even a simplest object, but they had very deep meaning causing other to have deep connection with it. They also broke down the barrier in the form of art and other literature use. The biggest impact beat had on writing was the use of censorship. They see it as no shame in the dignity of their language, but saw it as a form of expressing their