Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Can you hear the "Beat"
For history class we read short piece on, the Beat Generation. It got me thinking. The chapter was on the '50s and '60s. It was a time of great prosperity in America. The great depression had ended, there was no war, production rates were at an all time high, and just about everyone went to collage. Then out of this prosperity there was a group of anxiety poets and authors who bum around the country in search of what? What was their purpose? Why were they so non conformist? What do they want, and why r they called, the "Beat Generation?"
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In a way a beat of music or silence is thrilling, and this could have something to do with the Beat Generation. The Beat Generation was known to be thrilling as well as scary.
I think the term beat in this sense could mean worn out. I think that this group of writers was so sick of what was going on, and didn't buy into the reality of it. This is what made them beat. Thats just how I always thought of it but I don't know.
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