Howl By Allen Ginsberg

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets…” (Allen, 1). This is the first line of the poem, which perhaps provides a glimpse of the general idea of this write-up. In particular, the poem is entitled Howl and is authored by Allen Ginsberg. Moreover, the author dedicates this particular work to his friend who is known as Carl Solomon. Specifically, this poem is ideally a commentary about a generation, which seems to have lost its cause and is characterized by insanity and insouciance. In order to put the leading notion into perspective, the poem is divided into three sections: all of which help to describe the kind of generation that is existent vividly.
To begin with, the title of the poem itself is Howl, which can be loosely translated as persistent emotional vocalizations. As a matter of fact, it depicts on how the writer is crying and wailing about the madness that is destroying the generation of best minds. In particular, this is generation consists of the best minds and scholars of the 1950s who are suffering from various suppression and exploitation, which leads them to do of activities that do not seem to be acceptable or sensible. Notably, this is seen in the first and second line where the author speaks of the generation dragging itself to the streets referred to as Negro in search for an angry fix. Evidently, this generation is undergoing various adversities that bring the need to look for a fix to their problems, which may include drugs as the writer states that “with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls,” ("Howl by Allen Ginsberg"). It is without a doubt that the sentiments describes above refer to a situation in which people are hopeless, broken, and destroyed by madness. Accordingly, the writer makes a cry of help and desperation at the same time concerning the ailing