Ginsberg's Many Loves — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

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Ginsberg's Many Loves

Name: Katrina Noble
Major: English
Hometown: Sterling
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Type of research: Course project

Abstract

By mining Ginsberg’s poetry journals for references to his two primary lovers , I consider Ginsberg’s two main lovers – Neal Cassady, his sexual animal, and Peter Orlovsky, his life-mate. How much influence did Orlovsky and Cassady, respectively, have on the life and the art of Allen Ginsberg? Ginsberg’s portrayal of both men in distinctly different ways – not only as different personalities, but with different emphases in his life and in his writing. Even when portraying Neal as a large symbol in his life in the poem of Neal’s Death, Peter is shown as a background character of his life – someone that gives emotional support, but not necessarily substantial for creative works. Both sexual lust and long-term commitment serve as important sources for Ginsberg’s work. With the former influencing his poems imagery directly, while the latter provided Ginsberg with a consistent yet oftentimes taxing personal relationship amid which his professional life developed.