What makes Carl Solomon’s From Howl so atrociously powerful, is it solely the content of the poem or does he use certain literary techniques to create the images of destruction and chaos caused by the psychedelic drugs.
There's no doubt that Howl is powerful because of the diction behind the content. Reading the poem through and through with the words chosen to portray the scene is undoubtedly a trip. It seems as if left to right there are very few words that stand without qualification. With adjectives all over the place, it appears as though the speaker is trying to describe a world unknown to us without his descriptiveness -- that is why it becomes so atrociously powerful.
There's no doubt that Howl is powerful because of the diction behind the content. Reading the poem through and through with the words chosen to portray the scene is undoubtedly a trip. It seems as if left to right there are very few words that stand without qualification. With adjectives all over the place, it appears as though the speaker is trying to describe a world unknown to us without his descriptiveness -- that is why it becomes so atrociously powerful.
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