Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
    A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
    A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
    Ebook44 pages48 minutes

    A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

    By Gale and Cengage

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 14, 2016
    ISBN9781535817950
    A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

    Read more from Gale

    Related to A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      An Artist of Our Social Age

      Sep 1, 2022

      An Artist of Our Social Age
      10 min read

    • Article

      On Isolation and Literature

      Apr 30, 2020

      Isolation is not a medium for literature, nor is it a method of creating literature; it is the very substance of literature itself. The post On Isolation and Literature appeared first on The Millions.

      18 min read

    • Article

      A Poet’s Craft

      Jan 1, 2020

      To begin with a definition: A poem is a text structurally constrained by the repetition of any language element(s). The continuum of poetic constraint is extensive, stretching from operations that a reader will find completely imperceptible to overwh

      9 min read

    • Article

      Must-Read Poetry: September 2019

      Sep 5, 2019

      Eight new and notable collections you want on your nightstand this month, including work by a lost Catalan master and the latest from our new poet laureate. The post Must-Read Poetry: September 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Ada Limón And The Poetry Of Rebellion

      Apr 7, 2022

      You know what? I’m 45, and I get to write whatever poems I want. The post Ada Limón and the Poetry of Rebellion appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Myth Of Sisyphus

      Aug 10, 2020

      The Myth Of Sisyphus
      10 min read

    • Article

      Saul Bellow and the Human Look

      Mar 1, 2022

      Saul Bellow and the Human Look
      10 min read

    • Article

      U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón

      Dec 14, 2022

      U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Room Of My Own

      Jun 15, 2020

      I finished reading Virginia Woolf ’s famous essay, “A Room of One’s Own,” late one night and lay in my bed musing. Fifty years earlier, in the 1920s, Woolf had argued that women needed independent space to be creative. Glancing across my studio at th

      2 min read

    • Article

      David Berman, Slacker God

      Aug 8, 2019

      David Berman, Slacker God
      3 min read

    • Article

      EDITOR’S Note

      Dec 14, 2022

      THERE WAS A POINT DURING THE EDITING OF THIS ISSUE’S special section on inspiration when, I must admit, I felt a little overwhelmed by the veritable sea of ideas flooding my e-mail inbox each day, as contributors responded to my invitation to compile

      1 min read

    • Article

      A Writer’s Garden of Sound

      Oct 13, 2021

      A Writer’s Garden of Sound
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Plot Against Persona

      Sep 15, 2019

      The Plot Against Persona
      8 min read

    • Article

      Jack Kerouac’s Secret Tome

      Feb 27, 2020

      Jack Kerouac’s Secret Tome
      1 min read

    • Article

      Maya Angelou–Poet, Writer, Fighter

      Mar 24, 2023

      The Harlem Renaissance brought African American culture to the forefront of change in the 1920s and ’30s, paving the way for the civil rights movement. Named after the New York City neighborhood, the Harlem Renaissance challenged the common stereotyp

      4 min read

    • Article

      Get To Know A Few Queer Trailblazers

      Jul 31, 2022

      Known for: helping declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder A relentless gay-rights activist, Barbara Gittings is as staunch as they come. She grew up in the US at a time when psychiatrists believed they could ‘cure’ gay people, but young Gitti

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Study Guide for Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" - Gale

      Poetry for Students, Volume 29

      Project Editor: Ira Mark Milne

      Rights Acquisition and Management: Mollika Basu, Jermaine Bobbitt, Sara Teller, Robyn Young

      Composition: Evi Abou-El-Seoud

      Manufacturing: Drew Kalasky

      Imaging: Lezlie Light

      Product Design: Pamela A. E. Galbreath, Jennifer Wahi

      Content Conversion: Civie Green, Katrina Coach

      Product Manager: Meggin Condino

      © 2009 Gale, Cengage Learning

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored, or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks, or information storage and retrieval systems, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all copyright notices, the acknowledgments constitute an extension of the copyright notice.

      For product information and technology assistance, contact us at Gale Customer Support, 1-800-877-4253.

      For permission to use material from this text or product, submit all requests online at www.cengage.com/permissions.

      Further permissions questions can be emailed to permissionrequest@cengage.com

      While every effort has been made to ensure the reliability of the information presented in this publication, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, does not guarantee the accuracy of the data contained herein. Gale accepts no payment for listing; and inclusion in the publication of any organization, agency, institution, publication, service, or individual does not imply endorsement of the editors or publisher. Errors brought to the attention of the publisher and verified to the satisfaction of the publisher will be corrected in future editions.

      Gale

      27500 Drake Rd.

      Farmington Hills, MI, 48331-3535

      ISBN-13: 978-0-7876-9893-5

      ISBN-10: 0-7876-9893-8

      ISSN 1094-7019

      This title is also available as an e-book.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-4144-3834-4

      ISBN-10: 1-4144-3834-6

      Contact your Gale, a part of Cengage Learning sales representative for ordering information.

      Printed in the United States of America

      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 12 11 10 09 08

      Howl

      Allen Ginsberg

      1956

      Introduction

      Allen Ginsberg's Howl was first introduced to the public at a poetry reading on October 13, 1955 (some sources say October 7), at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. Ginsberg's passionate performance of the poem established him as an important figure in the antiestablishment Beat movement. The Beats were a group of American writers who came to prominence in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. They rebelled against conventional post-World War II morality, materialism, consumerism, and war, and embraced spontaneous expression, sexual freedom, alternative lifestyles, spiritual search, and experimentation with drugs. Howl was published in the 1956 collection Howl, and Other Poems. In 1957, the poem became the target of a landmark obscenity trial.

      The poem is an outcry of anguish against all that Ginsberg felt was unjust, repressive, and harmful

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1