Poets/Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

1926–1997

Poems: 40
Reader comments: 46

Portrait of Allen Ginsberg — Allen Ginsberg 1926–1997

1926Born

Biography

Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) defied simple classification.

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Analyses

A full analysis sits under one of these poems: what the poem says, how it is built and how readers here have read it. About the analyses

September On Jessore Road

This long poem in rhymed quatrains describes refugees on Jessore Road, walking "toward Calcutta from East Pakistan". The speaker travels the road by taxi and rickshaw and records what he sees. There are starving children, flooded huts, crowded camps and a bread line run by guards with sticks.

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From readers

What readers say about Allen Ginsberg

On September On Jessore Road
“Thank u Allen Ginesberg in my cordial heart to written this poem about the time on freedom fight in 1971.As a fredom fighters son i say u why u love my country?I want to ur LEGDUST on my forhead.May ur solereast is peace.thank u,love u toooooooooooo much.”
kabirul haque sagorBangladeshRead the comment →
On Footnote To Howl
“I don't think he's saying nothing is holy, but that everything is. Even humanity and civilization with all it's sins and failings is still holy and beautiful. That is what the holy section means to me. Look even at the rest of the poem. He glorifies the grotesque, and joyfully speaks of things most…”
peramiaUnited StatesRead the comment →
On Howl
“Bob - how interesting would a poem from a well rounded person, with acceptable life experience and a complete absence of social quirks be? I'm sure you would rather hear the same poem from the same person for the rest of your life, no? That is not to say, however that diversity cannot exist in…”
DimitriAustraliaRead the comment →
On Please Master
“This adult poem was read by a south windsor ct high school teacher to seniors, by the teacher and he still has a job. Come on America...where is the JUSTICE!!!..tjis behavior promotes sexual relations between teachers and students...very unethical..come on man.”
b4NafterUnited StatesRead the comment →
On Plutonian Ode
“Thank you for providing this to read. Without making a fuss about whether or not I have Ad Buster, or have ever used ad buster, or known anyone who ever used ad buster and in that case who are they and press continue to fill in their details. I say Thank you to you here now. I came to read this…”
Ms Jillian FryerRead the comment →
On Hum Bom!
“obviously there have been a lot of wars, and if all wars are the same so is his way of putting that into a poem. apparently there was a battle between people of Gog and Magog. either historically they were both lands that fought, or Gog (prince) ruled over the land (Magog), and if people have…”
azraelUnited StatesRead the comment →