Beat Movement
Beat MovementThe “Beat Movement” in modern literature has become an important period in
the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such
as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new
and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people
sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative voices are
becoming lost to eternity, but the message is alive and well. The Beats have
forever altered the nature of American consciousness. The Beat Generation of
writers offered the world a new attitude. They brought to society a
consciousness of life worth living. They offered a method of escape from the
stultifying, unimaginative world we live in, through the exploration of one’s
intellect. Beat has had many different contemporary implications in music,
poetry and...
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