Editing Howl (poem) (section)

===Rhythm===
The frequently quoted and often parodied<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rawstory.com/2013/01/howl-at-the-internet/ |title='Howl' at the Internet |last=Carpentier |first=Megan |date=29 January 2013 |website=[[Raw Story]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=22 March 2000 |first=Thomas |last=Scoville |url=https://www.salon.com/2000/03/22/howl/ |title=Howl.com (with apologies to Allen Ginsberg) |website=[[Salon.com|Salon]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJRnTI63jdEC&q=howl%20parody%20%22best%20minds%22&pg=PA57 |title=Guitar Highway Rose |first=Brigid |last=Lowry |date= 2006 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780312342968 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jj-colagrande/prowl-a-parody-on-miamis-_b_4805184.html|title="PROWL", a Parody on Miami's Transience and Eccentricities |last1=Colagrande |first1= J. J.|website=[[HuffPost]] |date=19 February 2014}}</ref> opening lines set the theme and rhythm for the poem:

{{blockquote|<poem>I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
Angel-headed [[hipster (1940s subculture)|hipster]]s burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,</poem>}}

Ginsberg's own commentary discusses the work as an experiment with the "long line". For example, Part I is structured as a single run-on sentence with a repetitive refrain dividing it up into breaths. Ginsberg said, "Ideally each line of 'Howl' is a single breath unit. My breath is long—that's the measure, one physical-mental inspiration of thought contained in the elastic of a breath."<ref name="notes"/>

On another occasion, he explained: "the line length ... you'll notice that they're all built on [[bebop|bop]]—you might think of them as a bop refrain—chorus after chorus after chorus—the ideal being, say, [[Lester Young]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] in 1938, blowing 72 choruses of '[[The Man I Love (song)|The Man I Love]]' until everyone in the hall was out of his head..."<ref name="baker">{{cite news |last=Baker |first=Jeff |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=The Oregonian |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/120279750587750.xml&coll=7 |title='Howl' tape gives Reed claim to first |archive-date=13 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213134838/http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/120279750587750.xml&coll=7}}</ref>