Research Paper on:
Allen Ginsberg's Life and Poetic Art

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who had been committed to a mental institution, Pilgrim State Hospital, the same place to which he had committed his own mother, Naomi; the unresolved feelings he had for his  mother; his concern over his beatnik friends Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, whose bright lights were in danger of burning out due to over-excess. Ginsberg has always insisted that  he wrote "Howl" first and foremost for himself, with no thought of publication. This could explain the rambling prose, the seemingly endless flow of words and the controversial language,  which would ultimately land "Howl" in a courtroom to determine whether or not it was obscene. To fully understand the structure of "Howl," one must first examine Allen Ginsberg, his  influences and the times in which the poem was written. In 1955, Ginsberg was a disillusioned poet who was frequently frustrated by repeated rejections of his work. He  strongly identified with his writer friend Jack Kerouac, who received literary prominence with his autobiographical On the Road, an immortalization of the Beat Generation for all rebels, past and future.  Kerouacs writing style was often lengthy and occasionally disjointed, seemingly lacking in traditional sentence structure. This technique is certainly evident in "Howl," but it has also been suggested  that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popular peak in the 1950s were infused with the  sounds of jazz which were little more than progressive jam sessions. Like a musical piece, "Howl" is divided into three parts. Ginsberg wrote Parts I and III first, and  these sections are where he defines the compassion and empathy for his friends Carl Solomon, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac. The opening lines ensured literary immortality for both the