Twenty-eight years ago today, on April 5, 1997 (February 28, 1997 in the lunar calendar), American poet Alan Ginsberg passed away. Alan Ginsberg On April 5, 1997, Alan Ginsberg, a famous American poet and representative of the "Beat Generation", passed away in New York due to cancer at the age of 70. Ginsberg was born in Patterson, New Jersey, into a Russian immigrant family and is Jewish. He studied at the University of Colombia and worked as a porter, literary agent and film actor. Ginsberg's poem "Howl", written in 1955, established him as the most influential American poet of the 20th century. By learning from Whitman's spirit of personal liberation and free verse, he played a certain role in reflecting the emotions of some young people in the United States after the war and getting rid of the shackles of academic poetry since the 1940s.