The legend tells us that Lao Tzu was contemporary to Confucius and when he departed from one of the border passes, the chief guard noticed that it was Lao Tzu. He asked Lao Tzu to write down this basic thought. So he did<span> it in two thousand words.
Source: </span><span>www.csudh.edu/phenom_studies/laotzu/taoteching.htm</span>
Answer:
Seward refusing to protest Alexander II's destruction of the Polish uprising
Woodrow Wilson's initial apprehesnion at joining WW1
Extra example: Franklin Roosevelt's refusal to overtly join the Allied Powers in early WW2.
It would be "traditional forms of poetry" that was not characteristic of the beat movement and the beat generation, since much of this movement had to do with "doing away" with tradition in many different aspects of life.
