Beat Poetry

Question 1

What unified beat poets

Answer 1

It wasn’t style elements but common experiences and a commitment to social justice that unified beat writing

Question 2

What was one significant and lasting affect at the post modern movements

Answer 2

The increased presence of the media and rapid advancement of technology which brought previously inaccessible information directly to

Question 3

What was the importance of the Vietnam war in relation to the media

Answer 3

The American public view of the Vietnam war emphasize the growing importance of the modern media as Americans lost faith in the government to inform them about the reality of events and its strategy in Vietnam

Question 4

True or false
The development of the beat generation in the 1950s what is the precursor and inspiration for the hippie movement of the 1960s

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Where did many big poets draw influence from

Answer 5

 they drew influence from the transcendentalists. particularly From Walt Whitman’s sense of individualism and Henry David Thoreau’s belief in civil disobedience 

Question 6

True or false

The first chaotic and sometimes violent phase to find the beaten down aspect of beat poetry

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or false:

Ginsberg deep satisfaction with his corporate life inspired him to write works that came to be considered representative of the beat movement. Such works lead in and the beach to the second phase after finding the term beats this time as “beatific”

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What defined best poetry

Answer 8

The beats were defined by the Contant in social significance of the literature rather than a particular style or one specific artistic perspective

Question 9

True or false: Ezra Pound inspired beat poets

Answer 9

True: They took modernist poet Ezra pounds call of imagism “making it new” to a whole different level

Question 10

How were beat poets different from other poets

Answer 10

They came to make both a literary and social impact and there was included Frank descriptions and discussions of taboo social subject profanity which wasn’t previously seen in serious literature. 

Question 11

True or false:
Before the Beat movement, hipster described Jazz musicians and their fans

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Bebop

Answer 12

A style of jazz that featuring a fast tempo and improvisation particularly reflected the hipster attitude and influence to style of many beat poets 

Question 13

William S. Burroughs

Answer 13

One of the best known beats who experimented with form particularly the cut up technique that he invented

Question 14

What is the cut up technique

Answer 14

The theory that cutting up existing words and rearranging them broke down the control system and therefore created a new meaning

Question 15

True or false the beach wanted to break away from controlling influences

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What’s influenced Kaufman’s poetry?

Answer 16

The influence of improvisation and rhythms of bebop. He later on the name “the original bebop man”

Question 17

How did Kaufman respond to JFK Assassination

Answer 17

He took a vow of silence and did not speak for 12 years until 1975. He broke his silence in a dramatic poem about the official withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam. But then a few years later he retreated again to solitude and said that he wanted to be forgotten

Question 18

Anaphora

Answer 18

It word or phrase that is repeated for emphasis at the beginning of a series of clauses or sentences

Question 19

How does Kaufman use anaphora in his poem

Answer 19

Through the use of the phrase raga which serves to connect to various contrasting concepts in the poem.

The word raga is a musical form so when Bob Kaufman speaks of a Rogge for every concepts he is talking about the common essence of every concept

Question 20

True or false:

Kaufman uses regard to introduced the interconnectedness of concepts and themes such as society and poverty

Answer 20

True

Question 21

What social theme is in the poem “Unanimity has Been achieved, Not a dot last for its accidentalness

Answer 21

The poem address is the theme of social any quality and discusses the anguish of people who are at the lowest level of society.

Kaufman suggests that privilege people have become deliberately blind not want me to the suffering but also to the very existence of beggars and other poor people

Question 22

According to Kaufman what is the root of all social ills

Answer 22

The disconnectedness and the artificiality Of modern society. When people are alienated they become apathetic and lose the ability to interact with others and a healthy way 

Question 23

According to Kaufman how have government agencies such as hospitals and healthcare providers filled the poor

Answer 23

They treat them not as people but I have destroyed love machines or experiments. He says mental health care providers Hatfield and mentally ill by treating them as if they are the problem instead viewing their issues with compassion

Question 24

How does the use of first person affect Kaufman’s poem

Answer 24

By using “I” Kaufman makes the suffering of the urban poor personal to him and his readers

Question 25

True or false:

Kaufman think that extravagant moments of shock and unrehearsed curiosity are needed to awaken the privileged to the injustice in society.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

What does the oracle at Delphi a.k.a. Sybil represent

Answer 26

In Greek mythology the Sippel had the power to receive prophecy from God and pass it some mortals these prophecies were often cryptic but they were considered wise guidance.

The author connects arts with a concept of Sybil by suggesting that only arts can awaken people from the corporate induced conformity. 

Question 27

What is the significance of Europa in this poem

Answer 27

By calling a robot his mother and referring to himself as America’s the office suggest that he is speaking not only as a poet but also as America.

He is speaking now for the modern corporate America but the old world or true America of the underprivileged whose voices often go unheard

Question 28

What does Ferlinghetti hope to achieve by invoking Walt Whitman in this poem

Answer 28

By invoking Whitman picture of the common people Ferlinghetti conveys that it is this America that needs to be rescued and reestablish

Ferlinghetti also invoke the imagery of Whitman’s poem to show what it is at stake if civil does not guide and save Americans

Question 29

Why does Ferlinghetti ask Sybil to see if the American people

Answer 29

Because he believes that even though the new America is more bath and technological it is not greater than the past empires. It doesn’t have culture of any worth or value and as is society America is lost

Question 30

What is the significance of calling on the oracle of Delphi

Answer 30

Roland Gabby is asking Belle for insight into the future and acknowledging the impossibility of getting such insight

Question 31

What does that mean idea of Ferlinghetti’s poem

Answer 31

Ferlinghetti ask the oracle to help save us family social inequalities and poverty caused by corporate culture