Allen Ginsberg was influenced by Hungry Generation poetry.
One may find in Allen Ginsberg's 'India Journals' that he is trying to write poems in the same form as that of HOWL and KADDISH but he is failing to regain the same breathing lines. This is because he had been attending to various Bengali poetry readings. Bengali poems did not have such long breathing lines as that of HOWL and KADDISH.
After Ginsberg came in contact with Anil Karanjai and Karunanidhan Mukhopadhyay in Benares he attended several functions where Ramcharitmanas of poet Tualsidasa were sung with the help of harmonium tunes. Some of the Hungries in Calcutta also sang at Khasaitola the songs composed by them. Malay Roychoudhury had taken Ginsberg to his elder sister's house at Patna where Ginsberg say his nieces playing harmonium and singing at the same time.
Ginsberg purchased a harmonium at Benares and carried it to USA for singing 'On The Tongue' poems just like to bards of Benares.
After Ginsberg came in contact with Anil Karanjai and Karunanidhan Mukhopadhyay in Benares he attended several functions where Ramcharitmanas of poet Tualsidasa were sung with the help of harmonium tunes. Some of the Hungries in Calcutta also sang at Khasaitola the songs composed by them. Malay Roychoudhury had taken Ginsberg to his elder sister's house at Patna where Ginsberg say his nieces playing harmonium and singing at the same time.
Ginsberg purchased a harmonium at Benares and carried it to USA for singing 'On The Tongue' poems just like to bards of Benares.
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