writing homework on On Allen Ginsbergs Howl. Write a 1000 word paper answering; Thoughts are linear and always old, but one’s immediate perception, when allowed to get in with no filters from that other, more worldly function of thinking, yields surprising insights into the reality that undergirds the nature of things.
Need help with my writing homework on On Allen Ginsbergs Howl. Write a 1000 word paper answering; Thoughts are linear and always old, but one’s immediate perception, when allowed to get in with no filters from that other, more worldly function of thinking, yields surprising insights into the reality that undergirds the nature of things. Man is beautiful and his instincts are to be trusted fully. His very reality is beautiful, and he invites us to participate in that perception of beauty through the poem. This paper explores this vision of reality while also answering specific questions relating to the poem itself. The first question is about the significance of Moloch in the poem. The second question relates to the meaning of Ginsberg’s ecstatic pronouncement at the end of the poem that everything is holy. The third question is with regard to the identity of Carl Solomon. (Ginsberg. Burt. Wallace. Poem Hunter). II. Discussion In answer to the first question of the identity of Moloch, we get that this is the name that Ginsberg gives to the enemy of the individual, which is none other than the social order of the time, with its mores and its conventionality, and its deadly and aggressively hostile disposition towards those who are different and who are unable to fit into the conventional mold. Moloch it is which is the personification of that social force which would, in the end, claim the independence, the genius and the life of his beloved Carl Solomon. Viewed in this way, we see Ginsberg depict Moloch as a machine, as something repressive and ugly, as something despicable, the enemy (Ginsberg. Burt): Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! …Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! (Ginsberg) In answer to the second question, Ginsberg declares everything as holy in the ‘Footnote to Howl’. Here we are made to understand that everything that Moloch tried to repress, including Solomon, is worthy of respect, and is worthy of that space that we reserve for the holiest things in our lives, worthy of worship. This is a howl against the very opposite regard that Moloch has for everything that Ginsberg considered holy (Ginsberg (b)): Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cassady holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars holy the hideous human angels! Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas! Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace peyote pipes & drums! (Ginsberg (b)) In answer to the third question, the most immediate answer is that it was to him that Ginsberg dedicated the poem, and the whole of the third and final section of ‘Howl’ is addressed directly to the man. We get intimations of the kind of place Rockland is from the sad fate that met Solomon there, and from the length and intensity of his address to the man we get that Ginsberg’s relationship with Solomon is intense and pivotal to the understanding of the whole poem. In a way one can say that the poem is a kind of howl, a painful shout, at the fate of his friend Solomon (Ginsberg): I’m with you in Rockland  . .