It’s a Mad Mad World:
An Analysis of the Narration in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl In his famous poem Howl, Allen Ginsberg takes his readers on a journey through the world where he and his friends live in. He describes a walk in the streets of New Jersey and tells his tale of how the world is seen from his eyes. His tone changes throughout the different parts from a normal tone to an angry tone and to an ecstatic tone. Ginsberg’s chaotic narration of the 1950s imbues his poem with the feelings of his colleagues. The beat generation, otherwise known as the beat movement, was a group of many different people with the same opinion of society being distasteful. Allen Ginsberg was recognized as a radical poet in the movement along with other notable …show more content…
Moloch is seen in the Old Testament as a symbol of sacrifice because in many ways, Moloch is offered sacrifices. Ginsberg uses Moloch to bring out his anger because society is offering themselves up to Moloch. Society is losing itself and Ginsberg is angry about their actions. Ginsberg relates the current society to Moloch because of how the people live under him as they, “saw it all! The holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! To solitude…” (Part II, Line 15). Ginsberg persona shows how much anger he hold toward the ridiculous notion that everything should be done the same way. How everyone should do the same thing all the time and keep the status quo. What really tips Ginsberg off the most is how willingly people would pursue after the Moloch-like society and not try to figure out that what they are following is wrong in many ways. He shows even more how society is Moloch when he says “Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!” (Part II, Line 3). The bitter persona of Ginsberg expresses the anger of the beat generation towards society and how people “break their backs” lifting up the
An Analysis of the Narration in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl In his famous poem Howl, Allen Ginsberg takes his readers on a journey through the world where he and his friends live in. He describes a walk in the streets of New Jersey and tells his tale of how the world is seen from his eyes. His tone changes throughout the different parts from a normal tone to an angry tone and to an ecstatic tone. Ginsberg’s chaotic narration of the 1950s imbues his poem with the feelings of his colleagues. The beat generation, otherwise known as the beat movement, was a group of many different people with the same opinion of society being distasteful. Allen Ginsberg was recognized as a radical poet in the movement along with other notable …show more content…
Moloch is seen in the Old Testament as a symbol of sacrifice because in many ways, Moloch is offered sacrifices. Ginsberg uses Moloch to bring out his anger because society is offering themselves up to Moloch. Society is losing itself and Ginsberg is angry about their actions. Ginsberg relates the current society to Moloch because of how the people live under him as they, “saw it all! The holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! To solitude…” (Part II, Line 15). Ginsberg persona shows how much anger he hold toward the ridiculous notion that everything should be done the same way. How everyone should do the same thing all the time and keep the status quo. What really tips Ginsberg off the most is how willingly people would pursue after the Moloch-like society and not try to figure out that what they are following is wrong in many ways. He shows even more how society is Moloch when he says “Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!” (Part II, Line 3). The bitter persona of Ginsberg expresses the anger of the beat generation towards society and how people “break their backs” lifting up the