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Corso and Rich

The Beat Generation has drawn parallels to other movements such as the French Impressionists, because, similar to that movement, the Beat writers, a small clique of friends, became responsible for a movement which formed from the themes, issues, techniques and portrayals in their works. The central ideology or theme connecting the Beat writers was their complete rejection of middle-class values and lifestyle. The main concerns they expressed through their works targeted at these values and lifestyle are now concerns championed by most rational contemporary citizens: pacifism, respect for nature over technological development, and expansion of individual consciousness. The roots of the Beat writers are founded in transcendentalism, Thoreau, and Whitman. The most successful and well-known Beat writers were Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. However, other writers of less acclaim like Gregory Corso and Adrienne Rich were significant in adding to the general vocabulary, themes, and concerns of the Beat generation, basically a rebellious movement that laid the foundation for the anti-establishment Hippie culture of the 1960s. Inherent in the lives of these writers was a heavy reliance on drugs, alcohol and sex with one or bother genders. Despite these aspects of their personalities, the Beat writers were generally composed of intelligent young adults who refused to accept the social norms of their era. Mainly children of the depression and World War II adolescents, these writers rejected middle-class society in every aspect. In this analysis we will compare two poems by Corso and Rich, Marriage and Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law respectively, in order to show how their work was an attempt to undermine conventional social norms, especially with regard to gender roles and marriage.

Gregory Corso was more closely associated with the main beat generation writers than was Adrienne Rich. His intimate associati...

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Corso and Rich. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 16:47, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1685261.html