(Story of His Life)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to write a poem about your life? Well, a
famous poet named Allen Ginsberg did just that when he wrote, "Howl and Other Poems" which
became famous of his time and continue on till today. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem, "Howl
and Other Poems" conveys and portrays a message to an audience in which modern poetry and
the Beat Movement on American literature was raw and revealing about the political and social
views such as war, sexuality, and drugs.
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, NJ, in 1926, he suffered an emotionally troubled
childhood because of the traumatic event he encountered after World War I. (Ginsberg, A.,
"Howl and Other Poems," page 7) Many of his poems, …show more content…
I feel like Ginsberg had lost control of his own behaviors and feelings that it had an
impact and affected his own personal matter and life while writing his famous poem, "Howl and
Other Poems."
For my own understanding of Part I of "Howl and Other Poems" in which I was assigned
to analyze and interpret Lines 36-39. I learned that it would be a challenge because this would be
my first time analyzing and interpreting a poem. For instance in Lines 36, "who let themselves
be f***** in the a** by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy," in which in my opinion,
they had sex with motorcyclists and love it while Ginsberg used religious language to portray
and refer motorcyclists as being saintly and used sensors to convey the message. In line 37, "who
blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean
love," in which my opinion, it's more on a sexuality level because not only did they had sex with
motorcyclists, there were exchanging oral sex with sailors who were on leave while in Line 38,
"who balled in the morning in the evening in rose gardens and grass of public parks
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to write a poem about your life? Well, a
famous poet named Allen Ginsberg did just that when he wrote, "Howl and Other Poems" which
became famous of his time and continue on till today. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem, "Howl
and Other Poems" conveys and portrays a message to an audience in which modern poetry and
the Beat Movement on American literature was raw and revealing about the political and social
views such as war, sexuality, and drugs.
Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, NJ, in 1926, he suffered an emotionally troubled
childhood because of the traumatic event he encountered after World War I. (Ginsberg, A.,
"Howl and Other Poems," page 7) Many of his poems, …show more content…
I feel like Ginsberg had lost control of his own behaviors and feelings that it had an
impact and affected his own personal matter and life while writing his famous poem, "Howl and
Other Poems."
For my own understanding of Part I of "Howl and Other Poems" in which I was assigned
to analyze and interpret Lines 36-39. I learned that it would be a challenge because this would be
my first time analyzing and interpreting a poem. For instance in Lines 36, "who let themselves
be f***** in the a** by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy," in which in my opinion,
they had sex with motorcyclists and love it while Ginsberg used religious language to portray
and refer motorcyclists as being saintly and used sensors to convey the message. In line 37, "who
blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean
love," in which my opinion, it's more on a sexuality level because not only did they had sex with
motorcyclists, there were exchanging oral sex with sailors who were on leave while in Line 38,
"who balled in the morning in the evening in rose gardens and grass of public parks