Good for me for starting an entry without completion.
Today was...today was interesting.
Started out with hard rain pounding on my windows, turned to warm sun, and then cold sun later in the afternoon.
I was a half an hour late for work today. Bonus points for doing my homework on the job.
Had a couple of surprise guests at work, but that wasn't entirely unwelcome.
School right after work, fun times there. Though my teacher agreed to letting me come in early to take my final, so that I can still make the Bright Eyes concert in Toronto. That makes me feel soo much better. And he gave me a ride home from school...well, to Scott's house.
Oh, and soy hot-cholcolates are now soy-clits. Brought to you by the amazing word combinationer.
And they are fine'n'tasty, too.
The past few days have been fun and productive. 'Been reading about the Beats for the past few weeks for my research paper...That's all sorts of interesting. It's kinda cool, cause I haven't been reading their poetry so much as their history. The kind of people they were, and it's just a really interesting look into another era, from people that made such an impact at that time. And why they wrote the way they wrote, I think that's really cool. What prompted them to create such off the path words and images, what specific events in their lives made them who they were. It's really fascinating to take a look at a group of writers like the beats; drop-outs, druggies, train-hoppers, promiscueous homosexuals, experimetalits, artists, writers, coffee-swilling, nicotene-dragging, hipsters. They set their own mark in the literary world, with such out of place ideals and lifestyles.
Then there is the poetry...It's so abstract, and beautiful in it's abstractness. They came onto the literary scene with words, representative images, to convey emotion sound and thought. Prior to that, poetry was all concise form, romantic and idealistic, with specific line placement and stanza. Poets like William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg and TS Elliot (with elliot being the most impactive through his poem "The Wasteland" which prompted contempory artists at that time to take the style to a new level) paved the way for people like Lawerence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg to explore other types of word usage.
The beats came around after WWII, in a time when the nation was facing economic difficulty, but still manufacturing the idea of the American Dream. They were a shock to the literary world, at a time when the nation was still recovering from lost idealism, and fruited hope.
When Allen Ginsberg read "Howl" for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, listeners were stunned. This was such shocking imagery, that people didn't know how to react to it. Some praised the poem, while others took a harsher look at the ideas that the poem dealt with.
In 1957, about a year or so after Ginsberg read Howl, Ferlingghetti began a small printing/publishing shop in San Francisco. He published and distributed poetry by the beats, including Howl and some of Ginsbergs other work. Ferlinghetti was brought to trial on obscenity charges by the state of California, for the poem's graphic nature. The trial went on for the summer of '57 up until the fall, when the charges were dropped.
The beats were experimental, druggie, poets. Many of them fled the states in favor of other countries, such as Mexico and Tangier. William S. Burroughs lived in Tangier for a time, with several other beats. There, homosexuality was free to explore, and drugs were pretty much everywhere. The lack of judgement and oppression appealed to the beats, wanting to be able to explore their religious and devilish curiousities.
Yada yada yada...there's your poetry lesson for the day kids. Enjoy.
(off to watch Family Guy)
-hypocrite.
Started out with hard rain pounding on my windows, turned to warm sun, and then cold sun later in the afternoon.
I was a half an hour late for work today. Bonus points for doing my homework on the job.
Had a couple of surprise guests at work, but that wasn't entirely unwelcome.
School right after work, fun times there. Though my teacher agreed to letting me come in early to take my final, so that I can still make the Bright Eyes concert in Toronto. That makes me feel soo much better. And he gave me a ride home from school...well, to Scott's house.
Oh, and soy hot-cholcolates are now soy-clits. Brought to you by the amazing word combinationer.
And they are fine'n'tasty, too.
The past few days have been fun and productive. 'Been reading about the Beats for the past few weeks for my research paper...That's all sorts of interesting. It's kinda cool, cause I haven't been reading their poetry so much as their history. The kind of people they were, and it's just a really interesting look into another era, from people that made such an impact at that time. And why they wrote the way they wrote, I think that's really cool. What prompted them to create such off the path words and images, what specific events in their lives made them who they were. It's really fascinating to take a look at a group of writers like the beats; drop-outs, druggies, train-hoppers, promiscueous homosexuals, experimetalits, artists, writers, coffee-swilling, nicotene-dragging, hipsters. They set their own mark in the literary world, with such out of place ideals and lifestyles.
Then there is the poetry...It's so abstract, and beautiful in it's abstractness. They came onto the literary scene with words, representative images, to convey emotion sound and thought. Prior to that, poetry was all concise form, romantic and idealistic, with specific line placement and stanza. Poets like William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg and TS Elliot (with elliot being the most impactive through his poem "The Wasteland" which prompted contempory artists at that time to take the style to a new level) paved the way for people like Lawerence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg to explore other types of word usage.
The beats came around after WWII, in a time when the nation was facing economic difficulty, but still manufacturing the idea of the American Dream. They were a shock to the literary world, at a time when the nation was still recovering from lost idealism, and fruited hope.
When Allen Ginsberg read "Howl" for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, listeners were stunned. This was such shocking imagery, that people didn't know how to react to it. Some praised the poem, while others took a harsher look at the ideas that the poem dealt with.
In 1957, about a year or so after Ginsberg read Howl, Ferlingghetti began a small printing/publishing shop in San Francisco. He published and distributed poetry by the beats, including Howl and some of Ginsbergs other work. Ferlinghetti was brought to trial on obscenity charges by the state of California, for the poem's graphic nature. The trial went on for the summer of '57 up until the fall, when the charges were dropped.
The beats were experimental, druggie, poets. Many of them fled the states in favor of other countries, such as Mexico and Tangier. William S. Burroughs lived in Tangier for a time, with several other beats. There, homosexuality was free to explore, and drugs were pretty much everywhere. The lack of judgement and oppression appealed to the beats, wanting to be able to explore their religious and devilish curiousities.
Yada yada yada...there's your poetry lesson for the day kids. Enjoy.
(off to watch Family Guy)
-hypocrite.