Thursday, April 8, 2010
Thoughts on Howl-poem
I feel that Howl is about Ginzberg's friends, encounters, stories and so on but it is aimed at the people in America that were not listening to the younger generation, that were forcing laws and forms of morality upon people and causing pain for no truepurpose. It is a poem that screams for attention. Ginzberg may have dedicated it to his friends and family (solomon and others) but i feel that he wrote it for his "enemies" the people that thought his work was vulger. It is a poem that speaks for an entire generation.
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I think that Howl is about events in Ginzberg's life, things that he has seen and listened to stories about. The poem starts with "I saw..." then he goes on writing about his experiences.
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