The structure of this poem's second part is based on Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno.
The structure of this poem's second part is based on Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno. The end of its first section quotes Christ's last words to describe "cities [shivered] down to their last radio." Its second section asks "What Sphinx of cement and aluminum...ate up their brains and imagination," and curses the Canaanite god Moloch. Dedicated to Carl Solomon, this poem describes people hallucinating "Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war," and centers on the experiences of "angelheaded hipsters" like Herbert Huncke and Neal Cassady. Beginning "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," FTP, name this poem by Allan Ginsberg.
The structure of this poem's second part is based on Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno.
"Howl"