Explication Of Allen Ginsberg Howl

Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (2540-2547) explores American culture and presents the issues that creative minds, "the best minds" (line 1) of his generation face in a traditional conforming society. "Howl combined apocalyptic criticism of the dull, prosperous Eisenhower years with the exuberant celebration of an emerging counterculture." (2538). Ginsberg's repetition serves as both stability and disruption as it takes the reader from thought to thought in the eccentric form of this poem.
"who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and/ were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were/ growing old and cried," (53-55) Perfectly captures the conflict of conformity for this period.

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