Allen Ginsberg's Howl

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Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a landmark mid-20th-century American poem of the Beat Generation, renowned for its raw, prophetic style and searing critique of modern industrial society.

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instanceOf Beat Generation work ⓘ
poem ⓘ
author Allen Ginsberg NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
culturalStatus iconic text of the Beat Generation ⓘ
landmark of 20th-century American poetry ⓘ
dedicatedTo Carl Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ
editor Lawrence Ferlinghetti NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPublicationYear 1956 ⓘ
firstPublicReadingDate 1955-10-07 GENERATED ⓘ
firstPublicReadingPlace Six Gallery, San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPublishedIn Howl and Other Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ
form free verse ⓘ
genre Beat poetry ⓘ
confessional poetry ⓘ
hasSection Footnote to Howl NERFINISHED ⓘ
Part I ⓘ
Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ
Part III ⓘ
influenced American counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ
confessional poetry movement ⓘ
contemporary performance poetry ⓘ
influencedBy Walt Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ
William Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ
biblical cadences ⓘ
jazz improvisation ⓘ
language English ⓘ
legalCase People v. Ferlinghetti NERFINISHED ⓘ
legalOutcome ruled not obscene ⓘ
legalSignificance expanded freedom of expression for literature in the United States ⓘ
literaryMovement Beat Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ
meter non-metrical ⓘ
notableFeature explicit references to homosexuality ⓘ
use of taboo language ⓘ
notableImage Moloch as symbol of destructive industrial civilization ⓘ
openingLine I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked ⓘ
publisher City Lights Books NERFINISHED ⓘ
sectionCount 3 ⓘ
setting postwar American urban landscape ⓘ
structure three main sections and a footnote ⓘ
style anaphora and repetition ⓘ
long-breathed lines ⓘ
oral, performative delivery ⓘ
prophetic tone ⓘ
subjectOf obscenity trial in the United States ⓘ
theme alienation in urban life ⓘ
conformity and repression ⓘ
critique of modern industrial society ⓘ
drug use and altered states ⓘ
madness and sanity ⓘ
sexual freedom ⓘ
spiritual quest ⓘ

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Moloch → appearsIn → Allen Ginsberg's Howl ⓘ