Hippies THroughout Time

Much like the Hippies of the 1960s, the authors of the Romantic Era rebelled from society in politics, reason and judgment, and in the arts, and attempted to live in an ideal world with freedom of imagination, thought, and beliefs. After being shaped from the numerous revelations, battles, and the grips of several tyrants, the writers of the nineteenth century valued the individual, emotions, imagination, freedom from societal rules, and sovereignty from the dirty slums called the city. The authors of the Romantic Era like Lord Byron and the Shelleys are similar to the hippies through their artistic outputs and political beliefs.

George Gordon Byron, commonly known as Lord Byron, was a well-known English poet from the Romantic Era who derived from a hell raising family and with similar an attitude shocks the tightknit society of the early nineteenth century with his political views and personal actions. Byron's best-known works are the narrative poems, Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work of literature that brought Byron his ‘instant fame’. After almost two hundred years, he is still thought of as one of the greatest and widely read poets. He was often described as flamboyant and mad due to the way he scandalously lived his life. He was widely known for his numerous love affairs with young lovers of both sexes, a rumorous affair with his half-sister, and exile from British society. Lord Byron was also recognized for joining the Greek War of Independence, fighting the tyrants of the Ottoman Empire, for which he was later named a National Hero by the Greeks. His Mock epic poem, Don Juan, Byron openly mocks the writing rules of the epic poetry format, epic hero, and the nineteenth century social lifestyle and rules.

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...the novelist Ken Kesey, a spokesman for the movement, were some of the many faces that used songs and works of literature to “stick it to the man!” The rebellious youngsters often held public gatherings, part music festivals and part protest rallies to celebrate lifestyles, were an important part of how the hippies expressed their disapproval; the best known celebrate was a three day music festival known today as Woodstock became synonymous with the movement itself.

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