Ginsberg poem “Howell” is a male-centric poem about how industry or machinery is destroying “…the best minds of my generation” (1500). The poem continues to address the questions “who” in the first section, the “what” in the second section, and the “where” in the third and last section is destroying these minds. “The Waste Land” poem gives the impression of being disorganized and is comprised of four vignettes commencing from four different presenters. The first is an authentic extract from an upper-class woman, who proclaims she is German and clashes with her state of self being. The second section deals with a forewarning narrator, which deals mainly with infidelity and forfeiture. While the third involves a tarot card reading and although…show more content… The associations of the two poems “Howell” by Allen Ginsberg and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot are challenging to establish, were as their dissimilarity appear predominate. They compare in that they are debatably the most influential poems in American literature, they are both credited with starting movements from their eras, and the substance of the poem confronted the governmental authorities and the customs within American during that period. They contrast in that Ginsberg poem was to a certain degree easy to comprehend whereas Eliot’s required supplementary clarifications in order for the audience to understand what he was attempting to…show more content… Eliot’s, “The Waste Land” provide unique writing styles and are debatably the most influential poems in American literature. “Howell” was a poem that was capable of influencing a generation of poets. It gained abundant admiration when it was expelled within the United States. Jonsson distinguished in her work that “Ginsberg’s colleague Lawrence Ferlinghetti ran a small publishing company, City Lights Publishing, and he had HOWL printed in England. When the novel was taken into America, it caused big problems. The entire edition was confiscated with the motivation that the novel was “obscene…” (Jonsson 5-6). The prohibiting of Ginsberg’s poem would bring about a platform for the author to illustrate his exceptional bravura of writing and was innovative for the ear. Ginsberg’s style give the idea of not being organized, and to some extent delusional, with no presence of rational between segments. This was as good as the enthusiasm surrounding T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”. This poem endures to be accepted as the one of the most prominent and as stated by Pericles Lewis “major statement of modernist poetics, both for its broad symbolic significance and for Eliot’s masterful use of formal techniques that earlier modernists had only begun to attempt” (Lewis par 2). “The Waste Land” was groundbreaking in that the different sections did not give the impression of being coupled and remained being articulated from the perspective of altered