 Originally intended to be called "The Beat Generation", the title "Pull My Daisy" was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady in the late 1940s.Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in Amram's jazz composition that opens the film.The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised.