This paper will compare and contrast The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot to Howl by Allen Ginsberg. My intent is to illuminate to fellow English writing pupils on the associations and the difference of the two poems referenced above. They compare in that the authors writing styles are unorganized, do not follow the traditional rhythm of poems from that era, and the subject matter appears delusional. They contrast in that Ginsberg poem was to a certain degree easy to comprehend while Eliot’s required supplementary clarifications in order for the audience to understand what he was attempting to depict.. Significant secondary sources include the work about The Waste Land by Pericles Lewis from The Modernism Lab at Yale University website http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/The_Waste_Land.
