n he did not follow. She tells him to “get married and don’t take drugs” while he went out and did the opposite of both. The final line in this section is “the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window”. Outside the world is a delight, but you will never be able to experience it firsthand. You will always be on the inside looking out, but never be able to touch it.The third section is short and terse; it does what the first and second have already accomplished. It is a more succinct summary of the life of Naomi Ginsberg. Not many examples of techniques exist in this part of the poem except that Naomi’s “universe” is one of “gray tables in long wards”. Although Ginsberg loved her, he does not outwardly express it, at least not in these words. Section four is written in a litany like format. It does sound like a Kaddish that Ginsberg may say in the memory of his mother. The ending with “your death is full of flowers” reaffirms this position that Ginsberg felt that death was the best thing for his mother. The last section of the poem is a continuation of the litany of the fourth part only it has Ginsberg playing the part of a bird. Each other word is followed by an annoying “caw”. The point of this last section can not really be determined, it would have ended better with section four.Although the topics of “Howl” and “Kaddish” are different, the overall tone and writing format are still the same. “He has said what he wanted to say with all the force of his original impulse, and with nothing left out” (Shapiro, Page 89) The pessimistic and hopeless overtones of both poems may be a little over the top. These were Allen Ginsberg’s feelings for the future and for life. They are real worries or a real person. Even if the nuclear arms race may be over, there was at least one time in everyone’s life that w...
