The young hipster Allen Ginsberg describes his life experience using a peculiar language, which was created by him and other young rebels of the 1940s and 1950s. Words and images in the poem are often repeated, punctuation marks, required by grammar rules, are ignored – there is no place and time for them in the animal life of Harlem inhabitants. Drugs, casual sex, hopelessness and the desire to take everything life has to offer without giving anything in return… This phantasmagoric, from the point of view of common people, whirl is presented as the only possible reality, the reality in which hundreds people live. It’s a cry of a person and many persons who are going through never-ending attacks at their consciousness, their minds, and their bodies. Due to this, Ginsberg’s work acquires a revolutionary quality, which perfectly matches its name. Along with emotions, we discover lines full of merciless and emotionless cynicism, which however, arouses a not less powerful emotional response. The text abounds in description of feelings experienced by social outcasts – the group to which many of the author’s friends belonged. According to Allen Ginsberg, his Beat-poem “Howl” was written in jazz style.
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