Tuesday, April 6, 2010
HOWL at the moooooon
the imagery in this poem gives it a feeling of desperation and wild eyed incredulousness. it describes the underbelly of the time, the gritty dark side of the craziness that was going on. ginsberg is not afraid to use words that will get a rise out of people, talk about pubic beards or cock or balls. these are words that have the connotation of back alleys or bedrooms, not words that are used in poetry, a respected art form. ginsberg takes the preconceived notion and turns it around to make people really look at themselves and what is going on around them.
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I completely agree, the way he wrote makes people seem very ugly and evil... which in turn could make them look at themsleves and see the truth of how horrible and ugly they have become.
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Do you think that Ginsberg wrote Howl to talk about one group of people or was he writing about the world and how fucked up it has become?
He does point out rather odious sides of mordern American culture at lengt, however at the footnote he also gives us this that utterly breaking out of the conformity unnecessarily is solely a fucked up thing.
ReplyDeleteI think he is talk about how the worl has become. i dont think anybody wants to be as "UGLY"as he portrays them to be but when people are angry, ignored, treated like shit and then on top of that have no money it is easy to become ugly very fast whether one likes it or not.
ReplyDeleteI think that Ginsberg poetry is a relection on the community he is in. He is not the one that comes up with the terrible, violent scenes those images are already there. Ginsberg just takes those images and turns them into an inspiring or renching art form. I would totally disagree that Ginsberg has not created a respectable art form if you ignore the content of his writing he is an incredible poet in and of itself.
i wasn't saying that it his poetry is not a respectable art form, i was saying that his poetry broke out of the mold of what poetry had previously been viewed as.
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