Ginsberg's Poetry Reasons in "Howl"

Crawford 2022-12-24 11:49:05


until i was 18,i was a virgin,i was unable to reach out to anybody"s body.
to reach out desire
i just felt..chained
jack give me permission to open up
he is a romantic poet
and he taught me writing is personal
that it comes from the writer"s own person,his body,his breathing rhythm,his actual talk


know that until eighteen I was a virgin and I couldn't reach anyone's body.
I can't reach for desire.
I felt like I was bound.
Jack allowed me to open myself up.
He was a romantic thing.
He told me that writing was a very personal thing.
It came from the author himself, his body, the rhythm of his breathing, his real talk.

envetually i developed a much deeper sense of confession
i needed to express my feeling s to him, but he didnt want to hear them
so i have to find a new way of expressing them .
Eventually, a very strong urge to confess gradually emerged in me.
I need to tell him how I feel. But he didn't like to hear that. So, I had to find a new way to express them.

jack was the first person i really opened up to and said,
"ima homosexual
i very soon realiized that nobody was really shocked by anything
unless you "re out murdering people ,you know
people would never really be shocked by an experession of feeling

jack, was the first person I opened my heart to,

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  • [first lines]

    Allen Ginsberg: "Howl" for Carl Salomon. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...

    [continues reading but unheard, credits roll]

  • Allen Ginsberg: There's no beat generation. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get published.