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A Sense Of Movement

Description: ISBN 0571210082 / Author: Thom Gunn / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism / A collection of Thom Gunn's poetry first published in 1957 ... more

A Sense Of Movement ... dealing with american youth and counterculture of the time.

Newest Review: ... view of Americana and the blossoming 50’s alternative culture, Gunn wrote his second collection ‘A Sense Of ... more

... Movement’ which was published in 1957. These poems draw upon the lofty ideas of existentialism and alienation expounded by the likes of Sartre and Camus and expresses them using the symbols of 50’s pop culture, Elvis, Marlon Brando and Rock n Roll. These poems are about motorcycle gangs, music, bohemian lifestyle and freedom of expression. Gunn discovered the drug culture early on in his stay in California, by his own admission experimenting with a variety of recreational drugs, including LSD. Continuing a lon...more

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A Sense Of Movement: Moving, keep on moving! (1457 words)
by Mauri - written on 16.04.02 (Very useful, 631 readings)
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Does poetry do it for you? ‘. . . poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity....’ (Wordsworth) ‘Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...’(Dylan Thomas) ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix...’ (Ginsberg) I have to admit I’m not a great reader of poetry but from time to time I come across something ...

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