Ginsberg now is describing the urban culture as “negro streets.” A lot of his inspiration came from Jazz rhythms and expressions. He sees the urban lifestyle as a cool look on freedom. But also a downfall because he writes that people see angles, meaning they were probably on drugs or drunk. Ginsberg and his friends spent a lot of time in the city so they were used to seeing a lot of higher authorities doing in just things to people that didn’t deserve it. Ginsberg implies that him and his friends got into such things (sex, drugs , and explicit language) because no one was being treated right so everyone kind of just gave up.

       Throughout the poem you begin to notice that Ginsberg takes you on a journey, he travels to different places with you. In the time he wrote this transportation was becoming more valued. Right now Ginsberg is traveling through NYC. He writes about going to the Bronx Zoo and notices that domestic life is not how “the best minds” live Ginsberg refers back to his life a lot in Part one.

            Ginsberg writes about African-American culture the way he sees it and that wasn’t a very popular thing to do at the time especially for a white man. That is one of the reasons why “Howl” got put on trial for being obscene. Ginsberg felt like him and his friends (the Beat Generation) were being rejected just as much as the African-Americans were. Ginsberg main technique in writing was conscious writing which allowed him to write down exactly what he was thinking. People of his time were also getting arrested for homosexual actions and he didn’t think that was a reason to get punished. People were just trying to live the way they wanted. He talks a lot of his friend’s sexual affairs and the loss of love they had. Not much females are mention in this piece. The women were always portrayed as a typical women (cleaning, cooking, please the man).

      Denver comes in to the poem and Neal Cassady comes back as this God like figure and Denver is a holy city. From here Ginsberg writes more about religion and is secretly implying that “the best minds” ask for forgiveness.

      Part two is mainly dedicated to the word “Moloch” which represents an evil God and government in Ginsberg case. Moloch the power to drive someone insane and destroy someone. Moloch also represents capitalism basically all things bad. Ginsberg also paints an image of Moloch taking over corporate America. He basically going into all things that have to do with government and the laws. One way or another Moloch is going to get to you. Weather you started getting into politics, patriotism, capitalism at a young age it will eventually catch up to you and you will start to notice the flaws in the system.  

      In part three Ginsberg begins to talk about Carl Solomon (which who the poem is dedicated to) who “threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers” Carl was a very smart man according to Ginsberg even though they met in a mental institution. Carl was also an example of a tragic hero when he decides to “presented (himself) on the granite steps of the madhouse demanding instantaneous lobotomy...” Rockland was the name of the institution and it is the beginning of every statement. I personally like part three because it shows a little bit of Ginsberg’s personal life. How he see a “shade of his mother” in Carl. His mother has mental issues so it was something that he could relate to. Ginsberg puts Carl on a weird pedestal “Solomon is madder than I am” meaning they are in the same place admitted for insanity even though Carl is a little more insane they are on the same level. He talks about shock treatment and how it makes a person more crazy than normal. “I’m with you in Rockland” is figurative, Carl Solomon’s may have just been part of his dreams. In the end the  reader is left with thoughts in there head like was “Howl” reality for Ginsberg or is this just a dream that his generation was broken, maybe Ginsberg was the only real broken one of his generation.