Allen Ginsberg:
The Validity of Howl Allen Ginsberg may be one of the most respected writers from the 20th century that wrote visions of a troubled American society after World War II. Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926 and died in 1997. In the 1940’s, Ginsberg attended Columbia University where he met other inspiring writers who later called themselves the Beats. The Beats was a combination of post-World War II writers that developed a reputation of phenomenal literature style through drug experimentation, sexual exploits, and religious spirituality. In the 1950’s, Allen Ginsberg wrote Howl for Carl Solomon, a person he met while incarcerated at the mental institution in New York. In Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other …show more content…
In Part 1 (lines 1 – 78) the tone used by Allen Ginsberg is aggressive. He is angry, sharp, and bitter at American society, poverty, hetero and homo sexual exploitation, and religious views of hell from the aftermaths of World War II. Ginsberg’s sarcasm increases as he shares more visions of the world. The bitterness is evident. Line 8 expresses the sabotage of Ginsberg mental disturbances, “who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall (Ginsberg, 10). The craziest point of view is how anyone cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear? What is he talking about? It sounds like a bunch of madness! In all perspectives, Ginsberg was certainly some kind of genius far ahead of his …show more content…
Ginsberg met Carl Solomon while in a mental health institution in Rockland, New York where he stayed after pleaded insanity for a theft charge. In a sense, it is as though Carl Solomon links to Ginsberg’s memories of hardship from his stay at the mental health institution. It is a way for Ginsberg to remember he is not crazy and that it is okay to be himself. In part III of Howl, Ginsberg is connecting with Carl Solomon with visions of his experience and relationship they shared together. “I’m with you in Rockland” is repeated in each line and Ginsberg tone is more subtle and honest. Throughout Part III Ginsberg kept Carl Solomon in his thoughts the entire time he lived in that moment. In relation to his own experiences in the institution, Ginsberg embraces Carl Solomon in ways no other person can imagine. In line 94 “Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland where you’re madder than I am” (Ginsberg, 24). States that Carl Solomon is acclaimed crazier than Allen Ginsberg who has stayed in the institution much longer than he did. Ginsberg is telling the truth of their brief moment together at the institution and the journey home to peace and comfort when they are again reunited at Ginsberg’s
The Validity of Howl Allen Ginsberg may be one of the most respected writers from the 20th century that wrote visions of a troubled American society after World War II. Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926 and died in 1997. In the 1940’s, Ginsberg attended Columbia University where he met other inspiring writers who later called themselves the Beats. The Beats was a combination of post-World War II writers that developed a reputation of phenomenal literature style through drug experimentation, sexual exploits, and religious spirituality. In the 1950’s, Allen Ginsberg wrote Howl for Carl Solomon, a person he met while incarcerated at the mental institution in New York. In Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other …show more content…
In Part 1 (lines 1 – 78) the tone used by Allen Ginsberg is aggressive. He is angry, sharp, and bitter at American society, poverty, hetero and homo sexual exploitation, and religious views of hell from the aftermaths of World War II. Ginsberg’s sarcasm increases as he shares more visions of the world. The bitterness is evident. Line 8 expresses the sabotage of Ginsberg mental disturbances, “who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall (Ginsberg, 10). The craziest point of view is how anyone cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear? What is he talking about? It sounds like a bunch of madness! In all perspectives, Ginsberg was certainly some kind of genius far ahead of his …show more content…
Ginsberg met Carl Solomon while in a mental health institution in Rockland, New York where he stayed after pleaded insanity for a theft charge. In a sense, it is as though Carl Solomon links to Ginsberg’s memories of hardship from his stay at the mental health institution. It is a way for Ginsberg to remember he is not crazy and that it is okay to be himself. In part III of Howl, Ginsberg is connecting with Carl Solomon with visions of his experience and relationship they shared together. “I’m with you in Rockland” is repeated in each line and Ginsberg tone is more subtle and honest. Throughout Part III Ginsberg kept Carl Solomon in his thoughts the entire time he lived in that moment. In relation to his own experiences in the institution, Ginsberg embraces Carl Solomon in ways no other person can imagine. In line 94 “Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland where you’re madder than I am” (Ginsberg, 24). States that Carl Solomon is acclaimed crazier than Allen Ginsberg who has stayed in the institution much longer than he did. Ginsberg is telling the truth of their brief moment together at the institution and the journey home to peace and comfort when they are again reunited at Ginsberg’s