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When he left home for Columbia in 1943, he remembered his past and was happy to leave his problems -- his mother's insanity especially -- behind him. Later, he noted that he had lost quite a bit by distancing himself from her. He wrote that he lost the ability to become close to "later friendly girls" (35). He believed that he had denied his feelings toward women out of fear of what happened to his mother (35). However, he was on a path to become a lawyer, although this path would change his sophomore year when he changed his major to English literature (35).
At the end of his second term at Columbia, Allen met Lucien Carr, who thought Ginsberg to be, a "shy little Jewish boy" (Morgan 37). Paul Roth had left for the war and Lucien became Allen's first serious "crush" (37). They two built a strong friendship and remained great friends until the day Allen died. It was through Lucien that Allen met William Seward Burroughs II (39) and he became quite taken immediately by Burroughs' "Old World, aristocratic nature" (41). By 1944, Allen's new friends were taking up a lot of his time and his studies were suffering (43). It was through connections to Burroughs that Allen met Jack Kerouac,...
Needless to say, Allen was attracted to Jack's external beauty, his maturity, and his wild ambition to become a great writer (45).
Ginsberg held several jobs throughout his early years, most notably in market research, but he decided in 1955 that he wanted to dedicate himself to poetry. On the 7th of October, 1955, with the help of Kenneth Rexroth, he organized a poetry reading at the Six Gallery with several of San Francisco's poets; however, it was his electrifying reading of "Howl," beginning with the line, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by / madness starving hysterical naked," (Ginsberg 9) that inspired the Beat Generation and changed the entire course of American poetry (Jackson, Markoe & Markoe 226-7).
Works Cited
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Publisher; Reissue edition, 2001.
Jackson, Kenneth T., Markoe, Karen., & Markoe, Amie. The Scribner Encyclopedia…
Works Cited
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Publisher; Reissue edition, 2001.
Jackson, Kenneth T., Markoe, Karen., & Markoe, Amie. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American
Lives, Volume 5.
Morgan, Bill. I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg. Penguin (Non-
Not long after meeting Carr, Ginsberg wrote to his brother and said, "I plan to go down to Greenwich Village with a friend of mine who claims to be an intellectual, and knows queer and interesting people. I plan to get drunk, if I can" (Hyde, 89). It was while Ginsberg was attending Columbia University that he realized, for the first time as an adult, his sexual orientation as a
This reading also featured Ginsberg's "Howl." Along with the rest of the world, the attendees at the reading also provided wide acclaim to this particular work. Indeed, the poem was seen as groundbreaking in the struggle against the destructive American powers that be at the time. Indicative of this is the fact that Howl and Other Poems was banned for obscenity shortly after its publication. Despite this, the work was
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