A comparison between Allen Ginsberg and Jack KerouacWhy. Excuse me. Why. Fa. Sorry. Because me. I intend. Excuse me. Why. It does. It . It always ends like this. So. A performance. It's my best excuse. E. I'm on the bandwagon. Still. Why. Apologies. Sitting in the state of a daydream. No. Fall. A performance. Because what is it about. Poetry. E. My two main men. Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Both use their individual voices to perform the Buddhist rhythm that they believe is part of their beatific poetry/movement. Although these two poets influenced each other. E. Their voices are significantly different. Everyone has a personal style that cannot be denied. E. Each boy added his own rhythm to the music created as a generation. A beat generation. The Buddhist poetry of Jack's jazz/blues choir is tamed/tainted by the Christian point of view. E. Allen's sound becomes zentific without Christianity/hanging on a cross in the backbeat of his prose poetry. Although each may have their own personal style, both poets use the same technique in sound. E. Rhythm to give the audience something to rock out to. Excuse me. What is there. That. Poetry. Child. A performance. AS. Please, brother. Take the opportunity. E. Dancing. (He says this while shh shh shaking.) “It all has to be improvised non-stop within each chorus, otherwise the concert is shot” (Kerouac, 1). And he meant every word. Jack's jazz/blues chorus system works/continues both harmonically and through certain words or phrases strung together through sound. And also like jazz, his music seemed to arise spontaneously, as if nothing had been planned. In the '182nd Chorus', the ideas behind the phrase "The Essence of Existence is Buddhahood" are carried forward in the '183rd Chorus' with the phrase "This is the true Buddha" (Allen, 171). It's like a bar of music in a jazz or blues riff. The idea and sound of one chord moves into the next, traveling, never knowing where it will end up. Just as the idea and sound of a line in one of Jack's choruses carries over into the next, traveling, never knowing where it will end up. It sounds and looks spontaneous. And for this reason it is meant to be performed out loud so that it can be heard as a lament of jazz or blues riffs.