In the excerpt from Howl by Allen Ginsberg, he wrote a free verse poem about his experiences with different type of people that he sees from the city. He goes into detail about his experiences, stating “dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angel headed hipster burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night” (lines 1-2). Which shows the place and time that the poem has taken place which could be assumed during the Jim Crow area hence his use of “negro.” It also shows that it was taken place in a big city since as the poem goes on, he talks about more of his various experiences and the diversity of the kind of people that he has encountered. Going into more
