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Allen Ginsberg

The often explicit and always vivid writings of Allen Ginsberg seemed to stem from his own life. Allen’s childhood in the city, political issues of the times, and the trials of understanding the vast psychology of human beings often emerged. His mother, Naomi Ginsberg, frequently tended to appear as topic or subject matter in Allen’s work as well. His writing would describe her life, her beliefs, and her mental misfortune, how they affected him, and how his own experiences compared. The course vocabulary and graphic descriptions Allen used would emulate the harsh reality of the time in which he lived. Ginsberg recreated his life, his family, his urban upbringing, and the way his world unfolded in his poetry.

Son to Communist Russian immigrants, Allen Ginsberg grew up in urban Newark and Manhattan, and his writings reflected such an up bringing. In his poem “America” Allen expressed his thoughts and retrospectively looked at his life, “America I used to be communist when I ...

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