It made the American poetry more mass and socially significant. It’s true, his creativity, his civic position, and whole his life were involved, active, and not independent. In 1977 in the interview for New York Times, the reporter commented that Ginsberg’s poetry “seems so admiralty attached to the world’, Ginsberg answered that he would rather the word “involved”, and explained that “ involved means present in the middle of, with complete awareness, and active”. The “Howl” is like a stream of thoughts and feelings of whole generation, it’s a protest against all existing laws, it’s the cry of the soul, the howl of most truthful and passionate poet of Beat culture. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…” (Ginsberg, p.

Poet regrets his generation from the first lines, Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” became the hymn of the Beat Generation and the most significant work of this culture. Their art ,certainly, played important role in the spread of protest ideas. Authors of this counterculture proclaimed in their works the ideas of the personal freedom, free love, they denied the lows and values of bourgeois society and existing culture. His poems, which often were written under impact of marijuana and LSD, influenced the worldwide of certain parts of American society.Īllen Ginsberg penetrated in the history of global culture as one of founders and ideological inspirer of the Beat Generation culture.

Definitely, Allen Ginsberg was a brilliant and extraordinary figure of American culture.

Allen was expelled from Columbia University for obscene poems and love affair with his friend, he took drugs, and was treated in a mental hospital, he could strip naked in front of his audience, he was often arrested for protest activity. He was not only the most scandalous poet of that period, he was also open gay, provocateur, and social activist, a bellman of the youth movement, and guru of the counterculture. One of the authors whose creativity reflected that complex, contradictory time was Allen Ginsberg, one of the most famous and cult poets in the American literature of the second half of 20th century. Not only different events and history affect the authors and their works, but also the creativity of writers and poets can influence the life of the individual person and whole society too. And literature, the first of all arts, comprehends and responds to everything that happens around. Certainly, culture always reflects the era and the most important problems in our world. The ongoing changes in the society did not leave indifferent many public figures and creative people of that time, having a great impact on their activity and creativity.

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