...movement, than to the fact that it said things people agreed with, thought were true; when they heard: or: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?...

...Many people who have not even read Ginsberg's work are familiar with the first line of "Howl":81 "1 saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." In this poem, hallucinations induced by alcohol and drugs serve two ends: an escape-route from the...

...bolstered himself with many glasses of cheap wine. But almost immediately, his exuberance began to flow: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly...

...ponderous main body of the poem and float it along stately overhead as if it were a kite. Ginsberg: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix ... Kerouac. Everybody was yelling . . . and old [Rexroth] was wiping his tears in gladness. Ginsberg:...

...elements together in a poem whose full title is 'Howl for Carl Solomon'. The piece famously begins I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix and Solomon is presented as a prime example, a lunatic-saint cruelly incarcerated in a mental asylum...

...(A) Ralph Waldo Emerson (D) BF Skinner (B) William James (E) JaneAddams (C) Frank Lloyd Wright 70. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." (A) Herman Melville (D) Walt Whitman (B) Allen Ginsberg (E) Dwight Eisenhower (C) Gerald Ford 71. The...

...turning into a bed or a Buddhist paradise or some other apparition. The best minds of his generation were "dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix," but they immediately commenced to see angels staggering on tenement roofs, eat fire, hallucinate Arkansas...

...United States and addresses the intense pain Ginsberg saw all around him. He begins "Howl" by saying: / saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. June 3, 1926 1:00:00 AM Paterson, NJ. Chart 37. Allen Ginsberg Then he captures the beauty and joy...

...voice." He also cites Allan Ginsberg's "Howl" to stress the human wreckage accompanying the landscape: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked." Later, Jarman will show us a naked, homeless man, ravenously devouring a cabbage from a garbage can....

...dalle esperienze dell'autore, descrive situazioni tragiche con un linguaggio crudo e diretto:1 (( l saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. )) È una lunga poesia a carattere sperimentale, in versi liberi, scritta come un fluire spontaneo...