Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry, the City Lights edition of HOWL has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print.Ī strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Evil America has turned the lives of the lower classes into a terrible and nightmare.The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL & Other Poems There are 6 types with 26 data and an explanation of rebellion portrayed in this research poem, but the types and portrayed that are more prominent are negative because the researcher finds a lot of war, capitalism, consumerism, deceit, torture, and murder physically and mentally. The result of this research were 26 data that contain types of rebellion principle where 7 data of assimilation, 2 data of accommodation, 2 data of acculturation, 8 data of contravention, 4 data of competition and 3 data of conflict. The data were obtained by using reading, collecting, and analyzing techniques and to classify the types of rebellion principle in the poem by Jhon Lewis Gillin and Jhon Philip Gillin’s theory. In analyzing the data, the writer used a qualitative descriptive research method through a sociological approach. The data source used in this research is the poem Howl. This research aims to analyze the types of rebellion principle used and how the rebellion portrayed used in the poem Howl by Allen Gisnberg. Rebellion, Social Process, America Abstract English Department, Letter Faculty, Bosowa UniversityĮnglish Department, Letters Faculty, Bosowa Univertsity

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