The report is focused on the meaning structure of several poetic works by G. Corso (1930—2001) who is generally treated as a representative of the Beat poet group. 

Despite the fact that the corpus of on-Corso papers published is voluminous, the problem of interpreting texts written by the poet seems to be much of actuality. The influence of studying Beat-poetry through the dusty lens of sociology together with biographical approach tradition stresses the «protest aspect» of the Beat counterculture, projecting automatically the collocation onto poetic texts of the Beats. The approach of the functional-semiotic theory allows us to perform the value aspect of several texts by Corso in a rather different way.

«Marriage» (1960) is one of the main texts written by the poet and the core poem of our report. Being described generally as a rejection of or an irony on the marriage institution, the poem loses its meaning. The functional-semiotic analysis with the help of the comparative analysis of two other texts («Greenwich Village Suicide» — 1955; «Death Comes At Puberty» — 1962) gives the understanding of the value conflict found in «Marriage».