An amazing confessional take on the society that Allen Ginsberg was touting about. “Howl” expresses the pent up frustration, artistic energy, and self-destruction of a generation that Ginsberg felt was being suppressed by a dominant American culture that valued conformity over artistic license and opportunity. For a poet or the individual to howl, meant that that person was breaking from the habit of conformity to the virtues and ideals of American civilization and expressing a counter-cultural vision of free expression. Ginsberg also expresses the madness of society which does not accept literature and jazz anymore, extremely well.
Saira Viola Books Poems and Scatterscript 
An amazing confessional take on the society that Allen Ginsberg was touting about. “Howl” expresses the pent up frustration, artistic energy, and self-destruction of a generation that Ginsberg felt was being suppressed by a dominant American culture that valued conformity over artistic license and opportunity. For a poet or the individual to howl, meant that that person was breaking from the habit of conformity to the virtues and ideals of American civilization and expressing a counter-cultural vision of free expression. Ginsberg also expresses the madness of society which does not accept literature and jazz anymore, extremely well.