Howl By Allen Ginsberg Critical Analysis
Poetry may be defined in many ways: for different people arising from different backgrounds, (levels of education, beliefs, culture, and family), poetry may be viewed in many perspectives that suit their familiarity of understanding. For T.S. Eliot, poetry is an art which is controlled to go beyond reporting feelings of moments, into something extended. The 'extended' feeling, that now has meaning beyond just an expression for emotion, is then able to live for itself, separate from its creator. Hence, poetry becomes an "escape from emotion and personality" as the personality that it derives from gives birth to something independent. Eliot is right to define poetry as something representing an extended feeling, as the beauty of poetry is to convey meaning from something unpoetic such as pure madness; however, he failed to include that to give meaning – an independence, to a feeling is to incorporate the poet's psychology. It takes a poet's intelligence to be able to transfer the unexplainable to something understood by others. A poem is not just a medium of escape, it is an extension of the poet's psyche as their experiences and knowledge of their world is what helps them craft and define the shape of their work.
Howl, by Allen Ginsberg is an example of how a "turning loose of emotion" becomes not just an escape of emotion, but an expression for his critiques against the American Society in the 1950's. Throughout the collection of poems, the minimal use of poetic conventions
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