Beat
![Picture](/uploads/1/6/8/7/16876916/2294862.jpg)
The Beat Movement, also called the Beat Generation was an American social literary movement that began in the 1950’s in New York. The movement consisted of rejections of standards, innovations of styles, rejections of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition. Beat poets wanted to liberate poetry and bring it back to the “streets”. Sometimes beat poets read their poetry with the accompaniment of Jazz music. As quickly as the movement came it ended.
Poem Analysis
The Poem I choose for the Beat Generation is “An Eastern Ballad” by Allen Ginsberg. In the poem Ginsberg goes to great lengths to describe love “I speak of love that comes to mind”. I think the author wants to turn the feeling of love into a person with almost limitless abilities ‘She (Love) moves in thought she cannot speak.”. “I have never dreamed the sea so deep.” I enjoyed the poem because in a few short stanzas the author sent me into deep thought.
Literary Device
The literary device used in this poem is a very common one, Personification. The Author used words to convey love as a person not just a feeling. "I speak of love that comes to mind." " She (Love) moves in thought she cannot speak.Perfect care has made her bleak." Ginsberg gives love human like attributes like moving.