This week we had talked about Allen Ginsberg's poetry "A supermarket in California". Beside this famous poem, Ginsburg actually wrote lots of homoerotic poetry and he is often considered to his openness about homosexuality. Gingsberg was a person who always want to help the gay people to get their rights and respect to be gay. "In 1943, he discovered within himself "mountains of homosexuality." He expressed this desire openly and graphically in his poetry. He also struck a note for gay marriage by listing Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong companion, as his spouse in his Who's Who entry." [1]
One of his most popular poem during the beat generation is the "Howl". This poem contain many
sexual practices, both homosexual and heterosexual. There's a line like,"who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists and screamed with joy". How crazy and controversial is this poem. Even now when people look to this line people will said "what the F...."and this poem was appeared during 1950s, how crazy was that.
Not only male poet wrote homoerotic poetry, there was female poet like Maureen Duffy did it too. Maureen Duffy "a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature."[2] She is a lesbian and she was first lesbian that come out to public and make comment before the discrimination act in 1967.
Work Cited:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Duffy
http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Duffy
http://www.maureenduffy.co.uk/
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