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  • Essay / Analysis of Ginsberg Howl - 1019

    He expresses with Solomon in a quote “Carl Solomon, I am with you in Rockland where we are great writers on the same terrible typewriter” (line 6, 24). This describes how Salomon and Ginsberg are both writers of the same generation; these are comrades to be clarified. His accent causes his friends to suffer through descriptive language: "I'm with you in Rockland where you scream in a straitjacket that you're losing the game...I'm with you in Rockland where you hit the piano catatonic, the soul is innocent and immortal, he should never die…I am with you in Rockland where fifty more shocks will never return your soul to his body” (lines 11-13, 25). This descriptive language gives many details about the treatment Solomon suffered. In the documentary, James Franco said, "I never had to go through those treatments, unlike the ones Solomon went through." Later in the poem, the last line emphasizes Solomon and Ginsberg's companionship by saying, "I'm with you in Rockland in my dreams, you walk dripping from a sea voyage down the highway through the 'America in tears to my cottage door at the western night' (lines 19, 26). This is descriptive of a prediction of an unbreakable bond of friendship between Solomon and Ginsberg. The Cottage in the Western Night is an analysis of where Ginsberg lived, while at the time he was supposedly living in San Francisco, on the west coast of the United States.