Howl By Allen Ginsberg Analysis

The development of an obsession with utopia is perilous, as perfection is unattainable. For Gatsby, this obsession “ had gone….beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion,” leading to his refusal of reality (Fitzgerald). Currently, Generation Z is experiencing a similar obsession caused by social media. Although created to be a means of communication, social media has evolved into an addictive force. Generation Z wakes up to cold screens in search of any form of happiness, no matter how fleeting, and continues to do so until they fall asleep. People no longer wake up to see the sky and embrace the natural beauty of the world around them, instead they wake up to see the cold, manipulated world of social media. Much

The war concerning whether social media is fantastic or terrible has raged on ever since it’s birth. Our world has changed plenty due to advancing technology, and our generation is the first to grow up constantly staring at a screen. The question is, what will become of us? “Teenage Social Media Butterflies May Not be Such a Bad Idea” by Melissa Healy is an article from the internet that supports Social Media. Hilary Stout gives the negative and positive sides by writing “Antisocial Networking.”

Social media has corrupted the lives of the newer generation. It is no secret that technology has taken over the world by storm. While some technological advances have helped America, most have done the exact opposite. In discussions of social media

"The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is an eternity! Everyman's an angel! The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is holy as you my soul are holy!...Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace & junk & drums!"

Social Media is taking the life out of our youth’s every day. More and more of our youths is turning into big couch potatoes because they are always on an electronic device. It seems like everything that have a colorful touch screen they are on it. What happen to the good old days when you can go outside and enjoy nature? What happen when you can easily communicate to them without texting them or spelling words right. We all are capable of communicating with words; we don’t need emoji’s.

Emotional Bullshit Or, Something More? “Howl” the explicit, “Howl” the horrendous, and “Howl” the banned. Howl by Allen Ginsburg is the everyday life of a man and his colleagues living in a time and place where they are plagued by the isolation of society. Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, and later became a founding father of the “Beat Generation” with his poem "Howl." The Beat Generation was a group of writers post World War II who documented events and inspired a culture.

Constraints of Confinement Trumpets blaring, bass booming, heads swaying to the beat in a tiny jazz club. Creativity is flowing and the Beat Poets of the 1950s are unknowingly establishing a counterculture movement, one that challenges the social norms and politics of their time and even transcends generations to remain relevant today. Poets like Jack Kerouac, William Seward Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg were heavily influenced by jazz, adopting their “seedy dress, manners, and ‘hip’ vocabulary” (“Beat Movement”) that changed their lifestyle and helped write their poetry. Specifically, Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, is often regarded as “the anthem of 1950s Beats” (“Howl | Poem by Ginsberg”), a poem unstructured and free flowing to reflect Ginsberg’s experiences. In Howl, Allen Ginsberg uses unique language and changes his tone throughout the poem in an attempt to break the constraints of confinement and seek his own forms of freedom.

Ever since the integration of technology and social media, we have changed as a society in how we interact, make conversation, and go about our daily lives. In the novel Feed, by M.T Anderson, the possible consequences of our dependence on technology and social media are highlighted through experiences between several teenagers in the future. They all live in a world that is the equivalent of a hyped up social media, which has taken over the way we interact with people. It becomes evident that M.T Anderson does not view our generation with applause, rather with disdain and pessimism for what we are doing to affect our future generations socially, politically, and economically. From the beginning of the novel, the reader

As you read “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg’s you pay attention more to the way the words are structured and out in a certain way. So personally for me I didn’t get to feel the same vibes as I got from the visuals. In the visuals u get a much better perspective in what the author tries to imply. But after analyzing both the poem and the visuals I now believe that Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” is the author’s attempt to express his views on how rules and order is what is causing the generations to go mad. He believed that the severity of the justice systems stunted the creativity of the nation’s most promising individuals.

“Howl” by Allen Ginsberg can be labeled as a prose poem, but it does not seem to fit any one category in literature. One could argue that “Howl” can not be confined by categorization because of how different in style and form that it is. This version of the poem was published in 1956 and has three parts. It can be viewed as a stream of consciousness with many random comma placements and few chances to take a breath while reading it. The poem is constantly building upon itself giving the reader little time to pause. The long stretched out lines help add to this effect of, what Ginsberg called, “a big long clanky statement” (492). By stretching out the sentences Ginsberg adds to the overall lengthy feeling that the poem has.

I wonder what happened to society? Back in my day everyone loved to hang out and socialise it was considered as being a human being. These days’ teenagers would much rather prefer to socialise with people through the use of the internet. Now it’s not the internet that’s a problem, and I am not saying that people should not browse through the web, but social media is damaging our teenagers lives.

The interweb. It’s a great thing isn’t it? While it can be useful to those who use it for the fact of writing an essay that might be thrown into a fire by most professors into a magnificent paper in which the teacher will forever claim them to be their student forever, it can also be detrimental to those who only find joy in browsing social media sites instead of reading the books that surround them in this world. The world has evolved in many ways and one of them is in the technological sense and it is great, but what if one day all the technology were to just vanish. How would today’s youth react to the fact that they can’t text their friends or even look at a selfie on #selfiesunday? The fact that children nowadays mainly know how to communicate

Moloch represents authority, those who tell us how we can and cannot live. Ginsberg proclaims this when he calls Moloch “the heavy judger of men,” meaning he has the power to give and take, a reference to capitalism, which is a system where the means of production and distribution are owned by private corporations. Ginsberg was strongly against capitalism. “He grew up with a communist mother, and found the government having complete control of the country detrimental to society. Subsequently, he did not like capitalism because, once again, much of the power was out of the hands of the people.” He reiterates this when he says Moloch is “the cross-bone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows!” which seems to say Moloch is the power of the government or the private organizations and its control over the people. He is, on one hand, calling Congress an actual place of sorrows and on the other, saying Congress focuses

After this point, it seems that the destruction has taken its course and there is nothing left but emptiness and everyone “battered bleak of brain all drained of Brilliance in the drear light of Zoo.” The last “fantastic Book,” “open door,” and “piece of mental furniture” represent any remaining originality, opportunities, and ideas that were left being “thrown out the tenement window” and “slammed shut” by society and the capitalist system.

As a teenager associated with the “technological revolution”, it has only been fate to be consumed by the constant social media that surrounds our society. With a phone always in hand, and a new app ready to be downloaded, the people of the current generation are being mind-blocked by the tweets and posts of their numerous friends. As I walk down the hallway of my high school, I see the tops of my classmates heads. Resembling a kangaroo, they are hunched over, arms bent with an iPhone glued to their faces, eager to catch up on whatever tweets they haven’t seen. Eager to see what “selfie” their favorite celebrity has posted on Instagram. The constant mentality of, “ Oh that would be a good tweet”, or “ Lets post theses pictures on