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Jack Kerouac was a poet who focused on the forgotten people of the world. Wherever he traveled he found the places nobody wanted to find and turned the un-pretty into magnificent poetry. Kerouac used the people no one wanted to remember and turned them into poetic works of art.
Jack Kerouac’s life was filled with adventure and self-destruction. Born on March 12, 1922, Kerouac grew up in the poor city of Lowell, Massachusetts. His life was tormented with poverty and alcoholism, first by his father, then he himself was afflicted by the deadly disease. At the age of 8, Kerouac lost his brother, Gerard to typhoid fever. Kerouac traveled hitchhike style across the country. In 1943, Kerouac was a kitchen boy on a US Navy patrol boat. He enlisted in the Navy as a reaction to Pearl Harbor; he quickly got sick of the Army life and war, but was highly amused by the bottle, which was deemed the sailor’s eternal comfort. In 1957, Kerouac’s book, On the Road was published. “It is disturbing and powerful, but not over done, bursting with juvenile grace, distraught depravity, serious questions and severe hangovers, cheap philosophy and smoking jalopies.” (Ann Charters.) Sadly after his bought w
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York: Phoenix Book Show, 1975. The first stanza makes reference to the flock to California during the 1930’s. When he wasn’t sailing he would hang out with people his parents did not like, “outcast” Columbia students, Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr, an older businessman, William S. This poem also seems to dictate what Kerouac, himself, went through while he was hitchhiking across the country, headed for the west coast. The men in the car, speaking to each other are talking of how the hitchhikers might be a danger to them, they say that, “He looks like he’s got a gun / underneath that IRA coat. Kerouac is most famous for On the Road, which has been translated into several languages. His family followed him to Queens New York and eventually Kerouac dropped out of college, shortly after his father had lost his business. Kerouac is acknowledging that women are great, but he is also observing how the woman walks, very motion filled movements. He uses each of these elements with a sure touch, works innumerable combinations and contrasts with them, and never slackens the speed of his narrative, which proceeds, like Dean at the wheel, at a steady hundred and ten miles an hour. ” The reference that Kerouac is making when the man mentioned the IRA coat, that he would take their money, like the IRA does, then murder them.
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