"Howl" Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg is one the most respected beat writers and acclaimed American poets of his generation.  Unlike many poets Ginsberg explored with drugs and robbery and pleaded insanity, he focuses most of his poems on poverty, sex, drugs, society, and America as a whole.  “Howl” was a very controversial poem that many argued was fascinating and extraordinary or volatile and inappropriate for readers. In reading in detail “Howl”, this poem is about poverty, drugs, the abuse of the body, and the abuse of society on others of less importance to them.