ALLEN GINSBERG

           Allen Ginsberg had made a profoundly strong impact on Poetry writing in America and on the structure that the “academy” suggests as real, or authentic poetry during the late 60’s and on, in terms of rhythm and format. He was part of the “beats” which also consisted of Jack Kerouac, Burroughs etc.       Ginsberg transformed the assumed structure of writing, into a free thought of coherent messages, arriving at a philosophical standpoint for cultural, sexual, and political circumstances. He attempted to connect his work and his life with no distinction, as they are both free flowing with no censorship from him, or others who were the influence.
          Ginsberg was a prominent figure in his method of constructing his writings through a natural rhythms and innate flow. He was a master of improvising; consequently using traditional poetry structure, and getting some academic credit. He says “See, the difference is between someone sitting down to write a poem in a definite preconceived metrical pattern and filling in that pattern, and someone working with his physiological movements and arriving at a pattern, and perhaps even arriving at a pattern that might even have a name, or might even have a classical usage, but arriving at it organically rather than synthetically”
        In the interview, the interviewer attempts to resolve or find some conclusion to formula and syntax used, having regards to the traditional rhyme schemes and classical formats. But for Ginsberg, there is no set method for his poetry/writing: the messages he produced are of most primary importance. The way that Ginsbergs poems came about was from the very rhythm in his head. Which he seems to be out of his head. The interviewer assumes a lot about Ginsberg’s intentions, but the formula Ginsburg seems to use most is that there is no formula. He gives the impression that trying to fit words into specific parameters is a destructive way to go about writing.
       The basic attempt of Ginsberg is to avoid a synthetic message. Furthermore, Ginsberg lacks censorship, which in respect creates a sometimes brutal, but truthful character which was “a complete revision of what literature was supposed to be” and an attack on “proper structure, or something”. The interviewer assumes that the reader wants to know specifics about Ginsberg’s influences and teachings and his methods for production, and he answers “We all talk among ourselves and we have common understandings, and we say anything we want to say, and we talk about our assholes, and we talk about our cocks, and we talk about who we fucked last night, or who were gonna fuck tomorrow”. Ginsberg, and the beats point: to be honest, which means to be truthful, which means to be real and that, meant to be inspiring, his influences being his friends (fellow beats, society and the truth behind real communication).  
       Thus the art of Ginsberg’s writing is an interchange of information with a message, where there is no distinction between, say, the message spoken to a muse and the message spoken to his friend; Ginsberg is solely subversive as he is a revolutionary for his time and the time to come.