Political Event: Howl By Allen Ginsberg

Political Event: “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg

“who covered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall” (line 9)

“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism” (line 31)

Allen Ginsberg was a very educational person. His mother was an English teacher and his father was a Russian expatriate, a poet. Along with his intellectual knowledge, he studied at Columbia University where he met William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Irwin Allen Ginsberg would be his full name, born in Newark, New Jersey and he was the founding father of a Beat Generation (Poetry Foundation). He and his friends started to establish the Beat Movement. In Howl, Allen Ginsberg delivered how to develop politics and its effect in World War II as he uses the word “Capitalism,” “Protest,” and “The Terror” to paint a picture of post-World War II American politics and culture.

Allen Ginsberg enjoys a prominent place in post-World War II American culture. He tormented the social issues in understanding his own poetic form. Allen Ginsberg seemed to doubted rejection of post-War American culture. It over conquered every rights of human society. Sexuality and drugs overdrive the time of World War II. Gazing over control, “who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism,” (line31) considered to be the first significant of a start of a campaign. As followed, Capitalism that brought economic into crisis politically involved of drug trades. Where the risk of the financial occurred was a big impact towards enterprising