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Position:Home>Poetry> .... Allen Ginsberg...?Question:can someone tell me what his poems were mostly about and what he focused on the most? what messages did his poems sent to the readers? Thank you everyone . Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: can someone tell me what his poems were mostly about and what he focused on the most? what messages did his poems sent to the readers? Thank you everyone . Mostly about American social culture, behavior and general attitude. In the summer of 1948, in his senior year at Columbia, Ginsberg had dedicated himself to becoming a poet after hearing in a vision the voice of William Blake reciting the poem "Ah Sunflower." Experimenting with drugs like marijuana and nitrous oxide to induce further visions, or what Ginsberg later described as "an exalted state of mind," he felt that the poet's duty was to bring a visionary consciousness of reality to his readers. He was dissatisfied with the poetry he was writing at this time, traditional work modeled on English poets like Sir Thomas Wyatt or Andrew Marvell whom he had studied at Columbia. Try looking him up and reading some of his poems. Read the poem "America" Will ten more shiny points ensure a place among the ancients or the insecure? |