Alan Ginsberg's "Howl" - Understanding the necessary and complex relationships between power and language
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Have a little read: ... As I struggled to understand the message and imagery of Alan Ginsberg's "Howl", I could not help but be reminded of my own work on the relations between power, gender and language. This poem dwells on issues of suppression, on the suicidal results of resistance, and the cold, mechanical brutality with which the institutions of the powerful operate. These themes, however seemingly enormous and political, are subject to similar digestion through the analysis of language as those of gender, and result from comparable interactional contexts between differently influential, yet less fundamentally divided groups. Ginsberg's monumental work explores numerous voices, each with their own particular genre, from the mute, calculating cruelty of society's Moloch, to the range of insanity that made up his fellow Beat writers, to the oppressed wisdom of Carl Solomon. Even the poem itself constitutes a bold and extraordinary proclamation of resistance against the institutions that he
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