Spiritual Illumination in Ginsberg’s“Howl”

Abstract

This thesis has been done for the pursuit of spiritualism in Ginsberg’s“Howl.” It embodies thesource of defeat, despair, discontentandAmerican’s woes: its materialism, brutality, indifference, ignorance, sexual repression, language of the street andthe sordid of contemporary realities,which is linked with concretevisionto showspiritual illumination. Onthe base of religions support such as,Eastern philosophies, Zen Buddhism, Christianity, and African American culture,etc.areexperimented with various drugs, terror, hysteria, prayer, anger, joy, tears, exhaustion and suicideare taken as raw materials of life and it is taken something beyond for spiritual illumination and liberation.