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Thank you We sneak in contemporary literature howl la shmoop

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How is a poem Technically by allen ginsberg he waas

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also friends with jack kerouac there's a stand in for

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him in on the road as well And he basically

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you know after spending all of this time traveling around

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america and talking to other writers he felt as though

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the greatest minds of his generation were being destroyed and

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wasted and that's what he says in the poem so

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it's a long poem a book length poem basically about

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how america is pushing its young people in its artists

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to conform and to follow strict social standards and that

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this is in his mind ruining them It is in

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addition to being kind of a long and very dramatically

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written it also uses lots of different types of imagery

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It's highly obscene in parts and in fact ginsburg was

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put on trial for obscenity on dh the he won

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the trial because basically the courts realized that this is

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a great pole But the types of the types of

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literary devices that uses are highly elusive by that i

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mean a l l u s i v e he

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alludes to other things For instance he'll use biblical imagery

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when he's talking about something i've seen happening in the

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present and that's two Both shocked the reader and to

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kind of reinforce the status of this new mode of

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writing as something that belongs in the literary canon Shmoop

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