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Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, And Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, and Walt Whitman were three poets who greatly impacted the poetry world. All the poets used poetry as a way to express their feelings with different situations from the society to relationships. The poets made a lasting impact throughout their "reign" and their names are still recognizable to this day. The poems of Ginsberg, Blake, and Whitman have many similarities amongst themselves. All their poems demonstrate powerful emotions depending on the subject. Some subjects they commonly have written about were America, relationships in families, wars, politics, life and death. In my opinion, Blake and Whitman greatly influenced Ginsberg. Like the others, the foundation of Ginsberg's work was the notion that one's

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