Howl

Howl was probably the craziest poem that i have read in a long time. I really could not pinpoint what all this meant. The first section could possibly be things in the world that have made smart people become corrupt. The very first statement says "I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" and the rest continues with statements about people who do and think things that may show a corrupt world.
"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness!" moloch is continued throughout this next section of the poem. I looked up online on what it could possibly mean. What i found was that it is a hebrew term for someone like a king, or a term for a kind of sacrifice. Since it is constantly repeated throughout this section, it may be expressing the different kinds of sacrifices in his world.
When the part about Carl Solomon comes up i begin to wonder of the sexuality of Allen Ginsberg. He keeps stating that he is in Rockland with Solomon. Rockland may be a place where they met or a favorite place near San Francisco. The main part that makes me think that Carl Solomon may be his lover is the section that says: "I'm with you in Rockland, where we hug and kiss the United States under our bedsheets" however, this could just be talking about trying to help the country, but it still "coughs all night and won't let us sleep." I think the main message in this poem could be about how corrupt the world and this country is and can be. I didn't look up who Carl Solomon but he seems like he could be important, maybe a bad model of the world.