howl by ginsberg

This was by far the longest poem I have read but it is also one of the best ones i have had the pleasure of reading. To me it seems like the poem is seperated into different parts. In the first part Ginsberg is talking about the best minds of society and how they were destroyed. He does not tell us exactly who destroyed them but it is clear to see that these arent doctors or lawyers but instead they are regular people that he thought were the best part of society. The second section talks about what he thinks destroyed these people and he used the hebrew God Moloch to describe his point. For Ginsberg, Moloch is associated with war, government, capitalism, and mainstream culture, all of which he believes was responsible for the destruction of these people. The third part of this poem seems to be a personal outreach to a friend of Ginsberg. He ended the poem with a dream, where he hoped he and his friend will reunite one day.