Research Proposal: Political and Cultural Paranoia in the Poetics of Allen Ginsberg



Abstract

The poetics of Allen Ginsberg, though revolutionary, brought great many scandals to the door of American poetry. He wrote in a time period, marked with obscenity, crudeness and immoral behavior in his words and tone. Allen Ginsberg wrote many poems that caused great concern among the poetic critic and readers. His work “Howl and Other Poems” was regarded as being crude, unethical and immoral. His works led to the dubious nature of American poetry that considers obscenity as rebellion and freedom of speech. These poetics not only gave birth to political and cultural paranoia, but also led to the fall of America as a degraded society with no moral values.

Table of Contents

Abstract1

Working Title of the Dissertation3

Background of Study3

Introduction to Topic3

Aims and Goals of the Research4

Research Questions5

Significance of the Study5

Literature Review6

Research Method10

Bibliography11

Appendix12

Working Title of the Dissertation

Political and Cultural Paranoia in the Poetics of Allen Ginsberg

Background of Study

Allen Ginsberg, born 3 June 1926 in Newark and died on 5 April 1997 in New York, is a poet and an American founding member of the Beat Generation. The publication of the poem Howl, Ginsberg was the trigger that consolidated the beat poetry and gave concrete form based on a heightened pace, with influences of jazz, which in total and assimilation techniques cutting edge and a return to some romantic conception reflects a personal universe made of images that often make the poem a kind of singing psalmody highly expressive. True allegation beat, Howl is an ode to madness and lucidity, and a protest against the mechanized, materialistic society. Since 1960, he left the United States and he traveled around the world to recite his poems, like a true bard, with a beard of a prophet, and working in what is tertiary, and their presence was often linked to the scandal (in 1966, for example, was expelled from Poland to publish his secret diary) (Schumacher, 1994). In 1963 he published his third book of poems, Reality Sandwiches, followed new titles such as Planet news (1968) and The Fall of America (1972), in 1984 the volume was published Collected Poems, 1947-1980, collection of site.

Introduction to Topic

Allen Ginsberg was undoubtedly one of the personalities of the twentieth century, the poet who found the final tone of American poetry, a poet who left his mark on contemporary literature. It is also recognized as one of the spiritual fathers of the hippie and flower power, social movements that swept the world. He was active in the groups that opposed the war in Vietnam, joined the Civil Rights Movement and gave his support to all organizations that defend freedom of expression. Ethnic, religious and sexual found in him a voice of solidarity willing to make the commitment a reason for living. He was arrested several times for leading protest marches of all kinds. He received awards, honors, scholarships, but also was one of the greatest sources of imaginative energy of that community of enlightened minds made ??up ...