Irwin Allen Ginsburg, a man from New Jersey, completed his poem "Howl," in 1954, and it's a literary piece that has remained controversial to this day. American writer Carl Solomon once said, "It is the poet, Allen Ginsberg, who has gone, in his own body, through the horrifying experiences described from life in these pages. "Howl" is a poem showing the struggle of everyone. Allen Ginsburg shows this by his use of free verse, choppy sentences, and relatively raw nature, giving it a stream of consciousness that parallels the human struggle of everyday. When reading "Howl," the first thing you notice is his choice of words and phrases. You feel like you are reading it at a fast pace, skipping, repeating, and stumbling over words. He shows human struggle in this way by taking influence from people who have mental illness or who are on drugs. For example, on page nine he says "who poverty and tatter." From these four words he his saying "who live in poverty and dress in tatter clothing. This way of writing is constructed to sound like a stream of consciousness. He does this by take the first few words that pop into his head, making you get in the minds of those who battle life each day. "Howl" is filled with descriptive, extensive, over the top words, making you visualize and experience the true madness of these humans. It is written in free verse and has a sort of constant changing rhythm that flows through the poem, much like are thoughts. Howl was written to get in the minds of the readers and show life in its true form. Ginsberg did this by telling a story of the day-to-day life from the thoughts of the drug addicts, musicians, "bums  mental people of our society. The name Howl is a true representation of how this story is told. He is venting his frustration and howling to his peers about the life he lives and sees everyday. On page eight, Carl Solomon states "This poet sees through and all around the horrors he partakes of i