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Brief analysis of the Beats Movement: The Beats movement was a movement of poetry that originated in New York City and the west coast in the 1940's. The movement became more prevalent in San Francisco in the 1950's. The end of WWI marked a great expedition of poetry, giving us poets like Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. These poets who became the beats generation, questioned politics, culture, creating change in consciousness and defying conventional writing. Fighting to change social conformity and against traditional literary work was an essential part of the beats movement.
Literary Devices Found In Poem:
In his poem "In Vain" Jack Kerouac uses allusion to connect to his audience. Referring to many different people and events in time such as "The tragedy of Hamlet, Abraham Lincoln, the Aztec empire" show that Kerouac pulled from different events that connects to the purpose of the Beats Movement. Questioning politics, and culture, Kerouac displays the content of a beast poem. Another literary device that Kerouac uses is Imagery, using imagery in such a poem helps to create and image in the readers mind that they can connect to. Using imagery Kerouac helps to create a picture that the audience can see and connect to. "The window shade string upon the hand bible, the glitter of the green glass ashtray", these images adds to Kerouac's efforts to make his point of how even the smallest things that people notice are in vain. |
Poem Analysis:
The purpose of the Beats movement was to step beyond the lines of traditional literary work and write about what everyone doesn't like to talk about, politics, culture, creating change in consciousness and defying conventional writing. What Jack Kerouac does with this poem is point out that that the many events in history have been done in vain because of how our society is today. Kerouac believes that all of the hard work and actions of people who have have made many efforts to better the world have been done pointlessly. Kerouac's ability to shortly, identify issues using allusion and imagery, help to better project his message. This poem, though short, is an image of the Beats Movement. |