THE POETICS OF BEATITUDE-A STUDY OF THE BEATEN POEMS OF ALLEN GINSBERG Dr Shree Deepa deepaeltc@gmail.

com Introduction Ginsberg s experimental poetry clearly illustrates the deathly effect of the New Critical orthodoxies on the work of art as an object. The relevance of Beatitud e, its relation to the main theme Beaten-ness should be analysed decisively by a Gi nsbergian critic. In an age, where special emphasis is laid on the Form of writing, it is interesting to note that Ginsberg s poetry is marked by a total retreat f rom it, that he was a bold and an individual stylist and an experimentalist in w ords, he is borne out by the diverse poetic tools he employed in his poetry. The tools include sketches of bizarre images that aid the understanding of the pict orial poetry. We notice his use of the American idiom and slang and his unorthod ox use of the language, which altogether determine his poetic technique. The concept of Beatitude in the poetry of Allen Ginsberg was born from his exper ience with various kinds, combinations and doses of drugs. He firmly believed th at only drugs could free man from the chains that bind him, and the imposing aut hority from without. He starts from reality; from the here and the now, and drif ts along the drug experience like a cloud in the sky. He has nothing to hold on except the experience, the pen and the typewriter. One important feature of any type of criticism indisputably reminds us of the ab solute abstract arbitrary nature of language, literature and creativity as ideas . Many critics end up judging a body of work not established on objective critic ism. This perpetually influences critics of a later generation. In other words t he first person to define or establish a form sets a concrete pattern based on w hich later works are judged. If this is what we conjure, we would irrefutably ge t a mere mimic of a predetermined, premeditated pattern, a clone of the original ; and any novel form is not up to the standard, minimally because it does not conf orm to the Established Form. If literature has everything to do with Creativity, how can creation be equated to mere meaningless unimaginative cloning? Such an act degenerates to clever cultivable plagiarism. This is where the Beats in general and Ginsberg in particular stand a class apart from their contemporary writers w ho created mimic poetry in an attempt to answer the impending questions of the p ost war culture. ISSN 2278-0742 www.ijells.com APRIL 2012