History
The Beats Movement, which is originally known as the beat generation, was created by a group of post WW II writers who became prominent in the 1950s, also with the cultural phenomena that both had documented and inspired. The central elements of the Beat cultural include several qualities. These qualitites include the rejection of received standards, style innovations, experimentation with drugs, the alternative sexualities, an Eastern religion interest, a materialism rejection, and human conditions explicit portrayals.
Anne Waldman- The LieArt begins with a lie
The separation is you plus me plus what we make Look into lightbulb, blink, sun’s in your eye I want a rare sky vantage point free from misconception Art begins with a lie Nothing to lose, spontaneous rise of reflection, paint the picture of a lightbulb, or eye the sun How to fuel the world, then die Distance yourself from artfulness How? Art begins with a lie The audience wants to cry when the actors are real & passionate Look into footlight, then feed back to eye You fluctuate in an artful body You try to imitate the world’s glory Art begins with a lie That’s the story, sharp speck in the eye. |
Poem AnalysisWaldman is explaining how some things in life,such as art, is a lie. She talks of the distance that art puts between the viewer and the truth of art itself. How when you look at a light bulb, then blink and you can still see its brightness in your eye. How a person's view on the world is a misconception. She continuously refers to eye as if it has no known truth to the world, like when she says "sharp speck in the eye".
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