Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl is a different form of poetry. He pursues new ideas and forms in his poetry. Ginsberg’s poem Howl comes across as if it were written from his direct thoughts at each given moment. He searched throughout his entire career to find ways to tap into the direct stream of consciousness of the mind, one’s direct thoughts. He would follow the motion of his thoughts and channel them into poetic creations. When reading Howl I felt as if I was reading his direct thoughts, what he had been thinking at that very moment. Ginsberg’s poetry is a different approach than what many prior poets had produced before him. Ginsberg writes “who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night/with dreams, with drugs, with walking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls,” (lines 10-11). In these two lines Ginsberg invites the reader into a hellish and sexual setting. In these two lines Ginsberg address what many people might consider sinful acts and uses key words that paint a disturbing picture of slum life living.