Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg and his poetry is a true definition of the post modernism time period.  He was a very ecclectic and non traditional writer.  His poems were demonstrated to almost "protest" the America he lived in because it stifled his free spirit and in his own words his "madness".  His poem "America" describes this.  It is ironic that he is speaking of America in this sense of imprisonment, when really America is supposed to be this land of opportunity and imagination, but really it was full of restrictions and rules that had to be met and followed.  Allen was not one to follow rules.  Many of his poems speak out against the conformity and traditionalism that was slowing starting to be broken during the 50's and 60's.