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The Beat of American Contempo: April 2010
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The Beat of American Contempo: The Opium Eater Reclines...
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The Beat of American Contempo. Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The Opium Eater Reclines. The opium eater reclines with rigid head and just-opened lips,. The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,. The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,. I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)". I am he attesting sympathy;. Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them? Whitman gives the opium eater only a glanc...
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The Beat of American Contempo: September 2009
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The Beat of American Contempo. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. In this same edition the poet uses the noun "grass" 24 times, the pronoun "I" 747 times, refers to his country "America" but 5 times; the poet employs (deploys? The pronoun "you" 397 times, the pronoun "they" 231 time, the pronoun "us" 24 times (putting it right there with grass), and that powerful verb loafe but 4 times (could he use it more without diluting its potency, without suggesting some labor in the act? How much thought and artistry ...
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The Beat of American Contempo: A Movement?
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The Beat of American Contempo. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Left: Jack Kerouac Right: Kenneth Rexroth. These two writers openly disliked each other. This fact is well documented, at least by Rexroth himself. Nonetheless, they both occupied, or are generally conceived of as having both occupied, a movement popularly known as "The Beat Movement." How can two writers with diametrically opposed aesthetics and conflicting social, moral, and political viewpoints occupy the same movement? Bureau of Public Secrets.
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The Beat of American Contempo: Keep it Classy Walt Whitman
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The Beat of American Contempo. Friday, October 9, 2009. Keep it Classy Walt Whitman. My cultural object has turned up to be more of an objectification of a repetitious character in history: the destitute, the forlorn, the addict, the prostitute. The question then is how does Whitman sympathize, or, in other words, communicate with these objectified subjects to make the both individual and part of a whole? Read Leaves Of Grass. What turns you off? What characters caught your eye? I found my inquiry direct...
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The Beat of American Contempo: A Few Words From Jack
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The Beat of American Contempo: December 2009
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The Beat of American Contempo. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Left: Jack Kerouac Right: Kenneth Rexroth. These two writers openly disliked each other. This fact is well documented, at least by Rexroth himself. Nonetheless, they both occupied, or are generally conceived of as having both occupied, a movement popularly known as "The Beat Movement." How can two writers with diametrically opposed aesthetics and conflicting social, moral, and political viewpoints occupy the same movement? I'm not Viet- MAN -ese!
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The Beat of American Contempo: November 2009
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The Beat of American Contempo. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Now that we have read Nella Larsen's novel Quicksand,. Let's take a look at some multimedia sources in order to delve a little deeper into some of the social and cultural enclaves Larsen renders in her novel. For the purposes of this assignment let's focus on Helga Crane's time in Copenhagen. Copenhagen presents both new opportunities as well as new limits for Helga Crane. Take a look at the glog we have created: Exoticism in Quicksand. Along wit...
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The Beat of American Contempo: October 2009
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The Beat of American Contempo. Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Objective: to condense, clarify, and structure an assignment centered on the interpretation and attempted understanding of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Step Three: In order to answer, or begin to attempt to answer the question posited at the end of step two, we will look closely at the following section of the poem:. In this section we see an interesting juxtaposition of characters. Indeed, in the same breath, we are introduced to an opiu...