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Beat Movement

The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in
the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such
as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new
and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people
sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative voices are
becoming lost to eternity, but the message is alive and well. The Beats have
forever altered the nature of American consciousness. The Beat Generation of
writers offered the world a new attitude. They brought to society a
consciousness of life worth living. They offered a method of escape from the
stultifying, unimaginative world we live in, through the exploration of one's
intellect. Beat has had many different contemporary implications in music,
poetry and literature. Literature has been liberated considerably. The poetic
form has been changed to inaugurate a new poetic form, an American form.
"There was less emphasis on tradition and more emphasis on the individual
talent. (www.rohan.sdsu.edu)" One of the most important contributions to
contemporary verse was to take poetry out of the classrooms and into
non-academic setting—coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and
even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more...

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