《英美诗歌鉴赏课件》Alen_Ginsberg.pptVIP

Allen Ginsberg （June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) Contents “Beat Generation” Introduction Life and awards Works Style and technique Appriciation of Howl Beat Generation Beat Generation: A group of American poets and novelists who were active and influential in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Beat writers rejected the prevailing culture, literary, and moral values, and in favor of unfettered self-realization and self-expression. Feeling oppressed by the dominant culture, they held and publicly advocated anti-intellectual, anti-political, and in general, antiestablishment views. Introduction A leading poet of the Beat Generation. Poet, Leader of literary movement, Traveller, Prophet(预言家), Religious believer. The “Geek” in the Contemporary American Poetry and the literary movement. Opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. Life and Awards Ginsberg was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson. As a young teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues. In 1943, Ginsberg attended Montclair State College before entering Columbia University. While at Columbia,Ginsberg contributed to the Columbia Review literary journal, the Jester humor magazine, won the Woodberry Poetry Prize and served as president of the Philolexian Society the campus literary and debate group. In 1986 Ginsberg was awarded the Golden Wreath by the Struga Poetry Evenings International Festival in Macedonia, as the second American poet since WH Auden. Ginsberg won the National Book Award for his book The Fall of America. In 1993, the French Minister of Culture awarded him the medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (the Knight of Arts and Letters). He died of succumbing to liver cancer via complications of hepatitis 肝炎on April 5, 1997. Other works 《卡第绪及其他》(Kaddish and Other Poems )(1960) 《现实三明治》(1963) 《美国的衰弱》(The Fall of America )(1973) 《日记：五十年代初，六十年代初》(Journals: Ear