A Howl in the Wind Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets /writers during his time. He was considered as the founding father of the Beat Generation and was known for his poem, HOWL. In addition, Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in the year 1926, suffering from an emotionally troubled life throughout his teenaged years because he’s been secluded when finally realizing his desirability towards men, while his father Louis is the one who introduced Ginsberg to poetry. Besides his father, Ginsberg had many literary influences such as, William Carlos Williams, Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren, etc. Nonetheless, later in the years, after remaining an “iconic figure” of the counterculture throughout the 1960 and 70s, he passed …show more content…
To clarify, it’s saying they looked like homeless people walking around with shopping carts, filled with onions, sobbing about how romantic the city looked, turning their words into poetry. I think Ginsberg wanted us to think of how much they have been through and that they’re so depressed because before they were lounging around looking for good sex and music, yet not finding any at the time. Furthermore, Ginsberg screams in his poem saying, “Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!” (Line 81). Moloch is a person(s) who has no love for people and judges them as well. Ginsberg describes Moloch as a nightmare, as a dream crusher, explaining that certain authorities (Moloch) tell people how we can and can’t live- like a government. I think he believed that it would be dangerous towards society if any form of government had wide-raging control, which is why I think “Moloch” is the …show more content…
Some ways he would show vision is in part one of “HOWL.” The first sentence says “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,” (Line 1). I think this quote means that the people who were geniuses quickly gave up on being great and just let themselves hit rock bottom, turning to drugs and living in cheap hotels. The last demonstration for vision is in part II. It says, “Moloch whose mind is pure machinery!” (Line 83) Moloch is a Jewish god, but for Ginsberg, Moloch is a person whom people are afraid of, like a monster. It then talks about how this “machine” kills childhood memories and love all at the same time. Saying that, people similar to Ginsberg and his friends don’t like the police or any forms government, showing their viewpoint in the