By: Melodie GalvanRheed Lee

Gerardo MezaJimmy Padrigan

Beats Movement defined

•The Beats generation originated in the 1940, in New York but boomed in San Francisco, in response to the gory of World War Two, the war affected the beats poets by making them question mainstream politics and cultures. These unique artists focused on challenging old fashion poetry by form a poetry that consists of a conscious form of writing. Along with their artistic skills, beat poets normally used hallucinates and alcohol to boost their articulate writing.

Poetic Techniques

• Rhyme• Looser, more syncopated rhythm, similar to jazz.• Slang words• No periods• Imagery (religious)• Free verse • Symbols• Concept: spontaneous prose( literature coming

from soul and without concious restrictions

Themes

• Centered on liberation for Black people, homosexuals, women and Native Americans

• Promote discrimination of marijuana and other drugs.

• Beliefs of non conformity and individualism• Encourage rejection of capitalism values of

mainstream USA.• Lament loss of personal values and faith.

Marianne Moore

• Born November 15, 1887• Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.• She attended Bryn Mawr College

before moving to Brooklyn, New York• Began a successful poetry career.• Moore won a Pulitzer and Bollingen

Prizes and a National Book Award.

Marianne Moore

Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to a farm outside of Seattle when he was two, and he grew up in the Pacific Northwest

In 1947 he enrolled in Reed College and shared a house with two other young poets, Philip Whalen and Lew Welch

In 1952 he moved to San Francisco and then rented a small cottage in Berkeley while he studied, and when he met Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, his cottage became one of the hangouts for the young Beat movement.

 He now teaches poetry half the year at the University of California at Davis and also lectures on ecology and the environment

Gary Snyder

Allen Ginsberg

• Born June 03, 1926 in NJ• Died April 05, 1997• Mother was communist and took him to

communist parties• Attented Columbia University• Homosexual and used drugs (benzedrine)• Most famous piece was “Howl”• Other poems: Kaddish,America,A supermarket in

California.

Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac

•  Born: March 12,1922 •  Died: October 21,

1969 • Died from• alcohol abuse 

American• novelist and poet  Referred to as a literary iconoclast • Became an• underground celebrity 

•   Notable Works·         On the Road·         Doctor Sax·         The Dharma Burns·         Mexico City• Blues·         The Subterraneans·         Desolation Angels

Jack Kerouac

Artwork from Movement

AP Style Writing Prompts

• 1.      Many writers from the Beats movement used the ideas of Buddhism within their works of literature. Explain the significance and the role that Buddhism played in the theme and ideas of writers in the Beats movement.

 • 2.      The ideas and writing from the Beats

movement influenced ideas such as rejection of the prevailing American middle-class values and protesting against common culture. Explain its influence in writers and culture in today’s society.

Poetry Lesson

• Write a poem as if you were an adolescent rebeling against the ways and values of “grown up” America.

Quiz

1.) When was the Beats generation established?

A. In the early 20’s just after WWIB. In modern days, the 90’sC. 1957D. In the 40’s

2.) In what city did the Generation begin?

E. New YorkF. MassachusettsG. San Francisco H. Daygo

3.) What form of writing did this culture bring to American poetry?

A. Stream of ConsciousnessB. Precise punctuation to show rhythm C. Rhyme 1-2D. No rhyme, basic

4.) What did the beats battle?

E. Social povertyF. RacismG. Politics and cultureH. Fashion and conformity?

5.) Which of the following are most likely to influence the beats generation’s poetic articulate writing skills?

A. Marijuana B. AlcoholC. CollegeD. Both A&C and hecks no, not C!!!!!!!

Thank You!