“I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, dying of hunger, hysterical naked, dragging themselves at dawn through the streets of the blacks in search of an angry dose, angel-headed hipster burning for the ancient celestial connection with the starry dynamo in the mechanism of the night.” The opening lines of Allan Ginsberg's Howl melodiously encapsulate the beat generation. The Rhythms alluded to textually, "The Best Minds", are a group of peculiar poets who through the medium of prose (driven by spontaneity and a primal lifestyle), have orchestrated a rebellion against conservative beliefs and literary ideals of the 1950s. Howl, using colorful imagery, speaks holistically about the instigator of the movement culminating in the personal experiences of the members of the beat. As a result, “Howl” evokes feelings of raw emotional intensity that reflect the mindset in which the poem was produced. The piece is structured in three stanzas, sacrificing temporal order to emphasize emotional progression. The first sequence rambles on with rampant drug fodder and obscene sexual encounters, eliciting intonations of impetuous madness, seemingly hinged on an interminable need for satiation of hedonistic desires. Similarly, the following stanza clarifies the cause of the aforementioned impulsive madness (i.e. the corruption of materialistic society motivated by capitalism), conveying an air of hostility combined with questioning exasperation. However, the prose ends by moving away from the previous negative feelings. Furthermore, Ginsberg embraces the once-doomed madness with a voice of jubilation, enrapturing a clinically insane friend while making sure the beats are with him regarding this state of der... middle of paper... Thus he concluded that individuals of a society governed by capitalism risked falling into a state of meaningless nihilism. Furthermore, the solution he believed in was that of a superhuman. A superhuman understands life's lack of intransigence and consequently searches for meaning within himself. However, the transitory quality of life means that the superhuman must constantly recreate itself to overcome the continually new obstacles thrown at it. Consequently, Nietzsche ascertains that the pursuit of satiation of one's insatiable hedonistic desires is the greatest strength for a superhuman. This is mainly because it is the underlying source of man's insatiable desire to overcome. Coincidentally, the syntax, as noted by Ginsberg, is that of a pyramid structure. The monotonous crescendo symbolizes Solomon's increasing madness and its correlation with increased joy.