Week 6 was about the Beat poets. The Beat Generation was a group of authors whose literature explored and influenced American culture in the post-World War II era. The chapter has started with Allen Ginsberg’s great poem “Howl”, it is almost like an epic. It represents Ginsberg as a prosodist – (a person who cares about the sounds of words) As per Ginsberg, Beat poetry should be spontaneous. The second poem was “I know a man” by Robert Creeley.
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“I know a man” - Robert Creeley.
As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking,—John, I
sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what
can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,
drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.
In this poem there are line breaks which one or the other way suggests
the image of digression in thought. We could find some despair with confusion
in poem. The first line is “Because I am always talking” which suggests his
loneliness. He calls his friend by the name “John” which was not his name, and
they are surrounded by darkness. it suggests identity crises and existentialism.
There
is a reference of buying car, which gives some glimpse of capitalism. The poem
has minimum words but it expresses maximum thoughts and condition of a common
man in capitalism and materialistic world.
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