1. The Beat Generation
By: Gema Hernandez, Ernest Viola, Jericho Garcia, and Victoria Cunanan.

2. Warm-Up What do you guys interpret the Beats era to be about?
Discuss it among your tables and we’ll call on someone randomly to tell us their reasoning.

3. The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation began to rise during the 1950’s, right after World War II
the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti- conformist youth movement in New York

4. Beat Generation poetry
In poetry from this era, the main topics were surrounded around non-conformist ideals and rebellion from social norms.
You can think of this era as the “hippie era” because the use of drugs, sex, love, money and rock music, were the center of the Beat generation and Beat poetry.
The Beat Generation is all about “counter-culture.”

5. Prominent literary devices
Metaphors
Personification
Imagery
Symbol
Simile

6. Allen Ginsberg American Poet Born: June 3, 1926, Newark
Died: April 5, 1997, New York City
He is best known for his opposition on militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression.
His father Louis Ginsberg was a poet and a high school teacher, and his mother, Naomi Livergant Ginsberg, had a psychological illness that was never properly diagnosed
His mother’s illness inspired him to write his famous poem titled “howl”

7. “Song” By Allen Ginsberg
No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love-- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love --cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy --must give for no return as thought is given in solitude in all the excellence of its excess. The warm bodies shine together in the darkness, the hand moves to the center of the flesh, the skin trembles in happiness and the soul comes joyful to the eye-- yes, yes, that's what I wanted, I always wanted, I always wanted, to return to the body where I was born
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human-- looks out of the heart burning with purity-- for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of love at last, must rest in the arms of love.

8. Section Analysis of song
Personification
“Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born”
Personification allows the poet to connect with the readers emotion and thoughts.
For example:
“In dreams it touches the body” gives off an aura of life that allows the reader to imagine what makes the love being described so powerful.

9. POp
QUIZ
WHAT are some factors during the time period that may have lead to the Beats Movement

10. Extended allen ginsberg
Born on June in Newark new jersey - April 5, 1997, in New York City, he died from complications of hepatitis
He was admitted to Columbia University, and as a student there in the 1940s, he began close friendships with William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Jack Kerouac, all of whom later became leading figures of the Beat movement. The group led Ginsberg to a "New Vision
Around this time, Ginsberg also had what he referred to as his "Blake vision," an auditory hallucination of William Blake reading his poems "Ah Sunflower," "The Sick Rose," and "Little Girl Lost." Ginsberg noted the occurrence several times as a pivotal moment for him in his comprehension of the universe, affecting fundamental beliefs about his life and his work. While Ginsberg claimed that no drugs were involved, he later stated that he used various drugs in an attempt to recapture the feelings inspired by the vision.

11. a supermarket in California
Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in
an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the
supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The
trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be
lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love
past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and
you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat
disappear on the black waters of Lethe?
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the side streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons? I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective. We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.

12. Analysis of the supermarket in California
a supermarket in California is dedicated to one of Allen’s poetic heroes and major influence, Walt Whitman
Ginsberg is describing a vision that he and Walt Whitman once talked about
Ginsberg wrote this poem to show the difference between urban and organic life
when he first enters it seems joyful and together but towards the end it gets darker and darker
Allen is trying to portray the lives we live
American consumerism
homosexuality

13. AP prompt
“After reading a supermarket in California, write an essay and analyze how surroundings and changes affect the narrator and what literary elements Allen Ginsberg uses to explore this issue”

14. GREGORY CORSO BORN: March 26, 193 DIED: January 17, 2001
Gregory was abandoned as an infant and was taken in by a foster care. He was abused throughout his life in the orphanage and when was visited by his father was also beaten.
As a result he suffered deep depression
Age of thirteen he was accused of a crime where he was celled with a murderer which caused him to be traumatized.
He went in and out of jail during his early years for crimes and done his poetry works during this time.
He later went into the beats poetry and created his famous poem “Marriage” published 1960

15. THE MAD YAK
I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get from me. They are waiting for me to die; They want to make buttons out of my bones. Where are my sisters and brothers? That tall monk there, loading my uncle, he has a new cap. And that idiot student of his -- I never saw that muffler before. Poor uncle, he lets them load him. How sad he is, how tired! I wonder what they'll do with his bones? And that beautiful tail! How many shoelaces will they make of that!

16. The MAD YAK Analysis
Title: The Mad Yak can be seen as an unhappy/angry animal
Paraphrase: I watched them take the last they can get from me. They wait for me to give up. They will make us of what is left of me. Where are my family. Our master has got something new. His friend also bought something new. My family also helplessly taken away. I wonder what they will do with us and our riches. What can they make out of that.
Speaker: First person.
Figurative Language: symbol, imagery
Attitude (Tone): Sad, Worried
Shifts: 5th line, 7th line
Title: The angry emotions evoked from injustice to others
Theme: There are many injustices that people undergo

17. Think OF a topic you can write a poem about that relates to the beats generation
NOW WRITE A SHORT POEM ABOUT IT: 5mins

18. Jack Kerouac Born: March 12, 1922, Lowell
Died: October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg
Jack was known as the king of the beats
Sought out drugs, girls, booze, crazy people and crazy situations
He struggled with the addiction
most notable work is the book called: On the Road

19. How to Meditate
-lights out- fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine, the gland inside of my brain discharging the good glad fluid (Holy Fluid) as i hap-down and hold all my body parts down to a deadstop trance-Healing all my sicknesses-erasing all-not even the shred of a 'I-hope-you' or a
Loony Balloon left in it, but the mind
blank, serene, thoughtless. When a thought
comes a-springing from afar with its held-
forth figure of image, you spoof it out,
you spuff it off, you fake it, and
it fades, and thought never comes-and
with joy you realize for the first time
'thinking's just like not thinking-
So I don't have to think
any
more'

20. HOW TO MEDITATE ANALYSIS
Talks about how to meditate
Meditation can endues the same effects as drugs, so it is a substitute for drugs
His battle with his alcoholic self
Meditation helps him forget about his addiction after he finishes his ritual
Literary device: IMAGERY

21. AP PROMT #2
In a brief essay, explain what points Jack Kerouac is trying to teach in his poem "How To Meditate." Use specific details from the poem to support your answer.

22. THE END
Secret quiz: who is FLASH GORDON?