Question: what are some characteristics of the beat generation?
Answer: Free Verse. The Beat poets, particularly Allen Ginsberg, really dug Walt Whitman. ... 
Post-Modern. Modernist literature is more openly emotional, confessional, and disjointed than the stodgy stuff that came out of the Victorian Era. ... 
Transgression. ... 
Alienation. ... 
Buddhism. ... 
Anarchy. ... 
Sexuality. ... 
Interracial/Cross Cultural.