They have, done all these things to challenge the mainstream culture. Here Ginsberg is optimistic of social acceptance. Through suicide, they want to abuse the culture done by Americans. They have repulsion towards life and attraction towards death. They threw salad on lecturers and gave speech on suicide. Homosexual hippies gave lectures on sexual matter. They even burnt money to hate capitalism. Sexual prevision can be seen in their poetry. Sometimes they were found throwing semen over others. They talked about anecdotes, marijuana, sex, memory, drugs. These people do not behave normally they even talk to 70 hours. Others go to University for higher education, but these people go to university for doing narcotic things such as writing vulgar on the windows and walls of the university.
They wrote whatever comes into their mind. They do not allow stopping their spontaneity. They wanted to challenge the mainstream culture through obscene art (vulgar art). They loved narcotic things because they wanted to forget the pain given by that culture and to challenge the mainstream culture. Their travel did not have any goal and destination. They loved to travel and they are good traveler. They travel aimlessly from one city to another city. They challenged that society which gave the birth, but not the accommodation. They went to the Negro street and looked with anger this anger is nothing but the expression of indictment (hatred) against American culture. They have become naked so as to challenge the mainstream culture. In Howl Ginsberg describes the desperation, the suffering and the persecution of a group of outcast, including himself who are seeking transcendent reality. The poem is unified with and the movement carried forward by resuming images of falling and rising, destruction and regeneration, starvation, under-nourishment, sleeping and waking, darkness and illumination, blindness and sight, death and resurrection. The poet descends into an underworld of darkness, suffering and isolation and then ascends into spiritual knowledge, blessedness, achieved vision, and a sense of union with the human community and with God. The movement of Howl is from protest, pain, outage, attack and lamentation to acceptance, affirmation, love and vision-from alienation to communion.
Howl presents a picture of a nightmare world and as some reviews predicted, the wasteland of its generation. They suffered from hysteria when the dreams are postponed continuously. Counter culture is not their choice, it is their compulsion. Those are scholars, best mind, and best generation. The best minds of the 50s are destroyed by madness. This poem, ‘Howl’ stands as the celebration of counter culture movement.
The poet asks people to cry against capitalism, exploitation, repression and subjugation. The title Howl indicates protest as cry, cry for all exploitation, repression and subjugation.
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