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Allen Ginsbergs Howl is the most famous and vital piece of the beat generation. Bob Dylans song Its Alright Ma (Im Only Bleeding) opened an entirely new genre of the song in the music industry. Comparing a literary work and a musical one, critics define them as dark masterpieces. The text of Dylans song was divided into aphorisms and quotes, and Howl became a new word in the history of world literature and marked the birth of new American poetry. Complex compositional works are similar in images, semantic references, unexpected associations, and parallels.
The poem and the poetry, clothed with music, have a similar subject matter, this is an angry diatribe accusing the established system of society and power. The poet claims that modern society is a repressive system saturated with violence and a cult of consumption. (Cosma, 2020, p. 29) The musician expresses anger at hypocrisy, consumption, and a warlike mentality inherent in contemporary American culture. Ginsbergs presentation and speech intonations make the listener feel the spectrum of emotions about his generation. Therefore, vocal expression is also essential not only for the song. In a live performance, Dylan and his guitar sound compelling, through his timbre and tone the author makes one feel the emotions conveyed.
Vivid examples of works images are associated with the destruction of a generation. For Ginsberg, this is the first line that sets the tone for the poem: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness (Mohammed & Mousa, 2020). Dylan has the lines that have become an aphorism:
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying (Omarkj, 2021).
Alliteration is used to some extent in the compared works to evoke visual images in the readers subconscious. This method helps the authors to depict objects and phenomena, as well as, to create sound images.
To conclude, despite the fact that the forms of writing works are different, Allen Ginsbergs poem Howl is written in free verse, while Dylan uses a complex rhymed structure. It creates a certain effect, both when reading the poem aloud and in song. Oppressed state of society and a situation must be changed, the authors act as messengers of revolutions countercultural, poetic, musical, and spiritual.
References
Cosma, A. (2020). The poet as activist: spaces of protest in Allen Ginsbergs poetry. Analele Universitcii Ovidius din Constanca. Seria Filologie, 31(2), 21-35.
Mohammed, H. J., & Mousa, A. H. (2020). Rebellion in the beat generation: A study in Allen Ginsbergs Howl . PalArchs Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 17(10), 4148-4152.
Omarkj. (2021). Bob Dylan Its Alright, Ma (Im Only Bleeding) With Lyrics. [Video]. YouTube.
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