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Anonymous Wed Apr 28 15:42:17 2010 No.607429 [Reply] [Original]

I'm about halfway through writing a 10 page close reading essay on Allen Ginsberg's Howl. I was wondering what you all thought of it. The first few times I read it I liked it but now that I'm really studying it I am beginning to realize just how amazing it really is. And I'm not a huge fan of poetry. (Yeah, stone me)

So what does /lit/ think of Ginsberg's Howl?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 15:43:17 2010 No.607433 I'm homosexual, and it's still a little too gay for me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 15:47:17 2010 No.607442 >>607433 hahaha. How so? To much waving genitals?

Anonymous Wed Apr 28 15:49:17 2010 No.607450

>>607442

I'll say. Ginsberg's just kind of embarrassing to read when you put him alongside Kerouac and Burroughs. Not saying he was bad, because he wasn't, but... eh.

Then again, I don't read as much poetry as I'd like to, so maybe I don't have the best perspective on this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 15:49:17 2010 No.607452 >>607442 >to

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 15:54:17 2010 No.607468 pessimistic "song of myself." intro by william carlos williams? sweeet

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 15:59:17 2010 No.607482 WHOS PROOFREADS THIS SHIT!!! William Carlos Williams?? There's too many Williamss in there you dumb fucks at Pocket Poet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 16:52:17 2010 No.607624 i don't have enough faith in this board to know that you're kidding

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 16:54:17 2010 No.607627 As social commentary it is awful. As experimental poetry it is awful. As an assesment of fringe lifestyle it is awful. Methinks Ginsberg was just in it for the gelt, if you catch my drift.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 16:57:17 2010 No.607635 File: 23 KB, 370x370, awesomehattan.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>607482 that's the guys name OH WAIT HURRRR

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 17:00:17 2010 No.607651 File: 57 KB, 429x500, invalidargument_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] it only experimented with long line free verse, which hasnt been experimental since whitman.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 17:02:17 2010 No.607658 >>607651 Prose, you mean?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 28 17:06:17 2010 No.607667 i liked it.

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