by Dylan may have come from “desolation
angels” by Jack Kerouac. Both Howl and Kaddish
would be heavily influenced by Kerouac’s prosody
and writing.
Meaning of the word “Beat”
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William Burroughs’s Junky is considered “the
novel that destroyed the novel” (Carmona, 2012).
The beat movement arguably started with Jack
Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs,
Herbert Hunche and Neal Cassidy. However the
Black
Mountain
School,
San
Francisco
Renaissance and New York school were soon
incorporated into the movement. Although the
term “Beat” was coined by Hurbert Huncke in
1943, According to Ginsberg it meant “Exhausted
at the bottom of the world looking up or out,
sleepless, wide-eyed, perceptive, rejected by
society (Carmona, 2012) To Snyder it meant “A
particular state of mind within a definable time
frame, sometime in the early 50’s up until the mid-
60’s when jazz was replaced by Rock and Roll and
marijuana was replaced by LSD” (Carmona, 2012)
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