Analysis Of Ginsberg Howl

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Suffering of his Journey- Ginsberg Howl Allen Ginsberg, a profound poet, is famous as the writer of the collection of poems in the book Howl. Academic scholars have noted the poem Howl is documentation as a man’s journey through a wasteland of isolation. To note, the title Howl is a metaphor representation of the cries or the struggle he implemented in this poem. In the poems, he uses poetic writing, his greatest asset, to put emphasis on his struggle in his life, the unfortunate events of his generations, and the pain he has encounter during his time at the psych ward. Ginsberg is a Caucasian male born in the mid-1900s and raised in New Jersey. An American poet and born into the Beat generation, he been fixated in writing poems since his …show more content…

“Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! ... Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the park!” (line 2, 21).The depiction of children and boys weeping in armies represents the drafting of war, which only a high authorities power can conduct this action such as the government. He doesn’t use Moloch not to solely represent but with entities that have power. An interpretation for Moloch can be seen as corporation, such this line, “whose eyes are a thousand blind windows!” (line 6, 21). He continue to write that this Moloch can’t be escape from, “Moloch who enter my soul early” (line 9, 22) is to claim that since early years of a human life, is our life has been control and there is no free conscious to choose decisions for. Ginsberg claims that we struggle because of higher power is dictating and manipulate of an individual way of …show more content…

He expresses with Solomon by quote “Carl Solomon, I’m with you in Rockland where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter” (line 6, 24). This describes how both Solomon and Ginsberg are both writers from the same generations; they’re comrades to put into clarification. His emphasis his friends pain though a descriptive language, “I’m with you in Rockland where you scream in a straightjacket that you’re losing the game… I’m with you in Rockland where you bang the catatonic piano the soul is innocent and immortal it should never die… I’m with you in Rockland where fifty more shocks will never return your soul to its body” (line 11-13, 25). This descriptive language gives great detail the treatment that Solomon has went through. In the documentary, James Franco quoted, “I never have to do those treatment not like how Solomon went through”. Further onto the poem, the last line emphasis the companionship of Solomon and Ginsberg by, “I’m with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night” (line 19, 26). This is descriptive of a foretelling of an unbreakable friendship bond between Solomon and Ginsberg. The cottage in the western night is an analysis of where Ginsberg was living, when at the time he supposedly living at San Francisco, the West Coast of United

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