FROM PERSONALISM TO DEMOCRATIC IDENTITY- THE BILATERAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WHITMAN AND GINSBERG
FROM PERSONALISM TO DEMOCRATIC IDENTITY- THE BILATERAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WHITMAN AND GINSBERG

Summary/Abstract: To explain the legacy that Whitman left in American literature is tantamount to identifying the numerous writers who borrowed from the Whitmanesque tradition and personalized it to fit larger social structures. However, the purpose of the paper is to create a bifocal structure that unveils the movement of America from Whitman’s vision of abundant and prolific nation, to Allen Ginsberg’s depiction of a simulacrum of the American identity. The main debate will be over the embodiment of the literary legacy and the observation of recognition patterns from Whitman’s poetry into one of the major moments of American literary history: the Beat Movement. The intention, nevertheless, is to re-read the poetic phenomenon that Whitman built from the perspective of the Beatnik representative Allen Ginsberg and to show the attire of Personalism as core reasoning in the representation of an American identity.

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