![]() ![]() It truly was a howl – sad, yet angry, a declaration by the poet Allen Ginsberg, a loud voice shouting at the socio-cultural system in America of the 1950’s that Ginsberg writes, led him to bear witness to “the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Everything about the poem is explicit, from its language, themes of drugs and sex (both heterosexual and homosexual) as well as the social and literary effect it had on the bland landscape of the United States (and in time, the world). It’s definitely an experience on its own and is really what the name suggests, something you pick up on more clearly the more times you read each line. It was unlike anything I had ever read before, especially in school and considering the controversial history of the poem and its prolific writer, it’s no real surprise. ![]() ![]() There’s no way you can read this poem just once, more so because at your first initiation it seems like nothing but a messy expanse of blatherings that completely go over your head. More than the time or my age, I remember the moments following my first reading of the poem Howl. ![]()
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