What Has Influenced Allen Ginsberg

What has influenced Allen Ginsberg in his writing?Why did it turn out being so queer and controversial?Allen Ginsberg is an American poet that mostly wrote about what was considered taboo topics at previous times.His writing is result of several influences in his life such as relationships, cirumstances,and experiences. Ultimately giving us his published masterpieces.Allen Ginsberg was truly an amazing poet,he never gave a crap about what others would say. People arrived and left,either way affecting his views and more importantly his writing.When talking about how people were interfering in Allen's writing,we can see that they did took a major impact on his works. Take for example the poem"Kaddish" it was written for his mother,who in
Burroughs, and John Clellon Holmes.They too were also writers,they met Allen at Columbia Univeristy where they were currently studying. Soon they had this "new vision"meaning that they would counteract at what they were being taught which were the formalitic ideals that literature proposed. Basically they said "NO!"to all the rules and rebelled against politics. Thus creating the beats movement and giving life to those magnificent thoughts of Allen Ginsberg.“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ” ― Allen
"In New York City in 1967 he was arrested and tear-gassed at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. In 1972 he was jailed for demonstrating against then-President Richard Nixon at the Republican National Convention in Miami. In 1978 he and long-time companion Peter Orlovsky were arrested for sitting on train tracks in order to stop a trainload of radioactive waste coming from the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant in Colorado. In 1965 he visited Cuba as a correspondent for Evergreen Review. After he complained about the treatment of gays at the University of Havana, the government asked Ginsberg to leave the country. In the same year the poet traveled to Czechoslovakia, where he was elected “King of May” by thousands of Czech citizens. The next day the Czech government requested that he leave, ostensibly because he was “sloppy and degenerate.”(poetryfoundation.org) Though many circumstances were not favorable for him,he still manged to somehow be inspirational and eccentric at the same time for many