Corso and Rich
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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 t
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inds nothing so absurd as he does the institution of marriage. However, like many other Beat generation writers Corso understood the power and longevity of the mutually-agreed upon myths he was attacking. In this poem we see that he understands the price of individuality in society with established norms and conventions is isolation and ostracism. Further, he understands that it is almost impossible to gain any measure of respectability or authority when the individual chooses to reject the common conventions and institutions firmly established by the society in which they live. This is also why we see his speaker accept and give weight to the fact that as absurd and humorous as he personally finds it, marriage is a myth that is still vital in American mentality: “Yet if I should get married and its Connecticut and snow / and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn, / up for nights, head bowed against a quiet window, the past behind me / finding myself in the most common of situations, a trembling man” (Lee 67). Therefore, as much as Corso attacks the social conventions of the 1950s through his humorous poetry, he is very much aware of the fact that for all his humor and exposure of the absurdity of such myths
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Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)
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