tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475751676630326068.post7785609633281044290..comments2023-11-08T00:25:38.938-08:00Comments on Alcatraz: Reflections on HowlUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475751676630326068.post-85258515652982626422010-11-06T01:06:25.328-07:002010-11-06T01:06:25.328-07:00It's interesting how you said everything is &q...It's interesting how you said everything is "holy" because everything around him is connected to a god: a god of all ugly things in life. I have not thought about it this way before. It's certainly a very new perspective. I feel the footnote sounds more like a prayer to me, as if Ginsberg's asking for forgiveness for this chaotic world. The footnote definitely reveals his deep disappointment with the world. I feel that it contains his wish to let the evil be purified. (The evil can be referred back to all the things he has listed in the second part, the "Moloch" part, of the poem.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com