In the poem Howl, Allen Ginsberg challenges the modernity of American culture, which forces the “best minds” (1) to give up their freedom to conform to the desired sense of normality. Ginsberg states, “I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked/dragging through the Negro streets at dawn looking for a dose of anger” (9). His expression of Moloch The Angry Fix is ​​what all these "better minds" are seeking after being deprived of their freedom to conform to the new American culture after World War II. The form of Ginsberg's poem challenges American culture through the resistance of "the best minds." spirits.” Howl is separated into three sections that include long, paragraph-like lines. Resisting traditional poems, Ginsberg organizes long sentences rather than dividing them into distinct parts. This free verse poem reveals the unorthodox measure that Ginsberg implements across the three parts. In the first section, he repeats the word "who" before each line to address the "best minds" and how their freedom is being destroyed. Equivalently, in the second he uses the word Moloch. Moloch can be interpreted as American culture destroying the “best minds” (Ginsberg). Ginsberg declares: “Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the soulless prison and the congress of sorrows” (21). He speaks explicitly of the politics that determines civilization to destroy the “best minds.” The reference to a Congress of Sorrows refers to the fact that American politics is the downfall of the best. Finally, Ginsberg repeats "I'm with you in Rockland" in the last part. This is not only addressed to Ginsberg himself, to "you", the reader, but also to all the people who have been destroyed by the desired normality...... middle of paper ..... .s” resist by realizing the desire to be normal that American culture instills. The exhausted brilliance of the “best minds” from the drugs they use to resist has only encouraged more resistance. They are destroyed by this American culture, which causes them to resist with drugs and lose all the shine they had before ideals and priorities changed. In a society that glorifies the normalcy of life by preventing people from acting on their ideas. Once the “best minds” of the generation have their freedom taken away in order to conform to the views of modernity, they resist by using harsh substances to get drunk. When they realize the power of government institutions like prisons and Congress, it leads them to find an unwelcome solution. Works Cited Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and other poems. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookstore, 1956. Print.