“Nature” of Allen Ginsberg - Hear Our HOWL

There are a lot of things that can be expressed from the mind. How the thoughts are presented through the mouth of the individual can be interpreted in many ways. Is the person upset? Is the person trying to make a point that can only be understood by a certain group of individuals? What is the message they are trying to convey? In Allen Ginsberg’s poem: HOWL, he expresses his outlook on the world in a run-on, angry, and a derogatory fashion combination which make up the theme of reformation: being a non-conformist himself in a set-ruled based 1950s society.
HOWL has a unique nature to it. It projects Ginsberg’s anarchistic view on reality’s “social” standing. HOWL sort of reflects on how Allen Ginsberg views the world. Ginsberg is one of the most renowned poets of his time and an iconic figure of the Beat generation. As an activist, he was very open about what he believes in – anti-war, homosexuality and so on. When he moved to San Francisco in 1954, he joined a clique that sought out to “eschew rigid rules of …show more content…
The denunciation for all of humanity’s ‘problems’ were all put on “Moloch the heavy judger of men!” (Ginsberg Line 81). What Ginsberg is trying to facilitate is that an evil is at work and thus produces what seems to be a dank putrid world in which he lives in. Because of this inability to do really much of anything about the system, hopes and dreams have “gone down the American river” (Ginsberg Line 90). Things such as “visions” – dreams; “omens” – the prediction of luck; “hallucinations” – ideas and fantasies; “miracles” – wonders and “ecstasies” are nothing more than just a “boatload of sensitive bullshit” (Ginsberg Lines 90-91). This “river” is like the final resting place of what was once accepted notions. It is like Ginsberg is saying it is the end of the world or rather the end of the preeminent thinkers of his