A Poem That Will Make Minds Go Crazy Analysis

A Poem That Will Make Minds Go Crazy When an author writes a poem, they express their feelings and draws the reader into the poem. The reader will sometimes relate to it and understand what the author is trying to say. The book Howl has four parts, but the actual poem is only the first three parts and the fourth part is foot note. I argue that Allen Ginsberg’s book, Howl is too difficult to grasp because the reader must research and translate every line in order to understand the author’s message. Ginsberg does not get to his point and published a book that the reader can’t understand, he’s not getting to his point. Part one Ginsberg talks about wild nights he did with his friends that took place in the 1950s. He starts every line with the word “who”. But reading the first part some of the lines are easy to understand, but most of the lines are hard to know what its saying. Just page nine is confusing. For example in line three he speaks of “angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night” (Ginsberg line 3). After reading this …show more content…
Going back and forth from the computer to the book can have the mind going crazy and it can get stressful because I would like to finish the book so it could do other homework or go out. It seemed like he was high while writing the poem and to prove it it shows him smoking it and getting a new one in the movie during the interview. Since the reader didn’t understand anything in the book itself. It got the reader to thinking that Ginsberg only wrote this book for only him to understand and wants everyone to figure out his message. He also said in the movie that he didn’t want it to be published because he didn’t want his father to know how Ginsberg lived his life. Reading this book is like trying to solve a puzzle, don’t know what the picture would be until the pieces are put