Blog Task 2: Reoccuring Theme on Silliman's Blog

Link to Beat Poetry on Silliman's Blog:

http://ronsilliman.blogspot.ca/search/label/Beat%20Poetry

Beat poetry is a style of writing from the mid-1950s and 1960s; the style of writing was popular in Greenwich Village, New York, and San Francisco, California. This style is a free-form type of writing that promotes individualism and protests the loss of faith. It was a small group of bohemian authors and poets that created beat poetry and became known as the leaders of the Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War 2 writers that started in the 1950’s. The “Beat” culture consisted of rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition. Some of the best-known beat poets include Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs. These writers were raised during the Great Depression in the United States and lived through World War 2. They where disappointed with their views of postwar culture of conformity and materialism, therefore causing Beat poetry to consist of the loss of personal values and faith, and promote the belief that modern life is spiritually empty.