Basic understanding of Poetry, it's time to apply the element of Language to your assigned poem for this month, "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg.

The title of the collection is Howl and Other Poems, but the poem itself, also titled 'Howl', only runs from pages 1-28.

Please focus on the element of Language, specifically Metaphor. Go through the poem and

1. find 3 examples of Metaphor in the poem
2. Provide a quote for each 3 examples that's no more than 2 lines long. This is important to do because this will force you to focus and analyze poems based on the line.
3. Then for each quote, explain what the metaphor is and what it's communicating to the reader.

As an example of how you can approach this assignment:

Example 1: "angel headed hipsters burning" - In this phrase, the description 'angel headed' gives the image of halos or glowing auras around the heads of these so-called 'hipsters'. They not so subtly suggest angelic qualities about the individuals, but also has suggestions of a glow resulting from an altered state (maybe through drugs), 'hipsters' alone is a term that has many meanings, such as cool and in-tune, as in 'He's hip!' But these angelic, hip individuals are also 'burning', which could be a burning from sexual desire or from an addiction or possibly a need for spiritual connection, especially since the next line refers to a "starry dynamo".

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There are components of poetry that we might focus on to improve our understanding of a certain poem or group of poems much as there are elements of storytelling Voice diction imagery figures of speec... View the full answer