Allen Ginsberg: through the gates into freedom

Resumo

The aim of this work is to analyse the roots of tradition in contemporary American poetry. With that purpose we have used Allen Ginsberg's poetical production, especially his poem "Howl," to represent the result of William Brake's and Walt Whitman's revolutionary plea to the poets of future generations. The gate symbol we use in the text represents the opening up to the "poets to come" leading to a higher degree in the freedom
of expression in poetry.