beat poets

[the state i am in]

kerouac, burroughs, ginsberg, cassady, snyder, and whomever else excites you. gregory corso, lawrence ferlinghetti sp.

kerouac is infp, cassady is probably enfp. snyder feels infj to me. i don't know ginsberg that well but i think he could easily be a j. maybe a dominant intuitive. his eyes feel j to me. i could see enfj. burroughs feels like an intj to me, but i waffle between intj and intp. he seems Ni dom more than Ti dom in the end.

 

[the state i am in]

ginsberg enfp or entp? the latest verdict for me is probably enfp, especially if whitman is an enfp (ginsberg = whitman, the sequel, but less good).

if i knew who lawrence ferlinghetti is, i might try typing him too.

gregory corso seems silly when he talks (in the soooo outdated, out-of-touch sense). i never liked him in kerouac books anyway. esp? isp?

 

[Sarcasticus]

I always thought Neal Cassady was an S... probably ESTP. Good with the ladies, lot of energy, never really did much writing himself but was more of a catalyst for Kerouac.

Edit: and I agree with INFJ for Gary Snyder

 

[the state i am in]

neal is the biggest inspiration for kerouac's prose. he's definitely a fast-talker. in visions of cody you get a sense of how out-there he was. i'm gonna re-read The Letter later and respond. he could be entp too.

 

[Wild horses]

What do you reckon to Edgar allan Poe... INFJ??

 

[Wild horses]

ooooophs just reread the title.... sorry he is not really an example of a beat poet... just a depressive one!

 

[matilda]

neal is the biggest inspiration for kerouac's prose. he's definitely a fast-talker. in visions of cody you get a sense of how out-there he was. i'm gonna re-read The Letter later and respond. he could be entp too.

yep. exactly why i think he's an S.

kerouac: infp > isfp > infj
burroughs: intp
cassady: esfp > estp
ginsberg: intp

 

[Lady_X]

keorac sounds enfpish to me...kinda

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”


“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”


My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”



but i have no idea really...

 

[Lux]

Diane di Prima - INFP

 

[matilda]

keorac sounds enfpish to me...kinda

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”


“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”


My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”



but i have no idea really...

Fi + Ne

 

[DrExcelsior]

Kerouac. INFx. Hes emotional enough to be INFP but his taciturnity and charismatic ''cool' together with seriously moralistic Buddhist Catholicism argue INFJ to me.
Ginsberg xNFP at times seems ENFP especially late in his career.
Burroughs. Seems very clearly INTJ to me, almost a poster boy. My INTJ friend has many similar traits. Not ISTP: he had a "blind spot for anything mechanical" and his handiwork was always a crazy bodge job.
Corso. ENxP? I'd hazard ENFP given his love of Shelley. Would consider ESTP but "fried shoes" screams Ne to me.
Snyder. ISTP at a guess. Maybe ISFP because he was generally so genial and not spiky. (But I never left his chainsaw out in the rain so..)
Whalen. INTP.
Brautigan. INFP. (Poster boy)
Spicer. INTP.
Neal Cassady. ESTP. No one could drive like that or talk like that and not be. Holy con man with the shining mind.
Carolyn Cassady ISFJ?
John Clellon Holmes INTP.