Who is Carl Solomon?

The reader doesn’t learn much about Carol Solomon, it seems like he is an old friend and lover of Allen Ginsberg and they have been through a lot of hard times together. In the third part of “Howl” Ginsberg writes about Solomon, how he is with him.

Who are the people in the poem about?

I think that they people who were around him are the people in his poem, Ginsberg’s neighbors, friends, family, and the people in the news. They are the people who greatly effected his life as well all other people he knew. The poem shows a dark side of humanity; Ginsberg doesn’t go around the truth he does not want to cover it up.