”To battle, conquer, and rebuild the world. Ready are we to meet the challenge hurled: Of good King Arthur’s Knights and Kubla Khan,īuildings of old beliefs are being bombedĪnd rotted walls are crumbling down today. Prepare ourselves to wield more mighty tools. His father Louis Ginsberg was a poet and a high school teacher. We leave the youthful pennants and the books, Allen Ginsberg was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson.That’ll take a whole lot of space and would feel like I am fangirling! p) (I won’t attempt to analyze them, though. A spectacular mixture of love, hate, passion and drugs – his poetry left me high af. Words that explored the dirty, the dark and the lovely – all at once. I would never have hoped to survive my teenage years were it not for Ginsberg, Sure, Wordsworth provided comfort and yes, Keats gave me solace but it wasn’t until I read the collection, Wait Till I’m Dead, that I really came to realize what I was looking for.
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