Howl, By Allen Ginsberg

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,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,

-First four lines of Howl, By Allen Ginsberg

Q1- Where is this poem taking place?
- You can tell that the setting for the first part of Allen Ginsberg's Howl is in some sort of city. You can easily tell that this poem takes place in a city because he mentions negro streets, which at the time could mean a place like Harlem, New York. It is also obvious it is a city setting because he mentions floating over the tops of cities.
Q2- What is the point of the first part of Howl?
- This part of the poem has to do with people that Ginsberg knew, that were destroyed by drugs. " starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,".
Q3- What sort of art could possibly go with this poem?
- I feel like an oil painting would be the best artistic medium to go with this poem. A painting depicting a certain ghostly like frame of a man with the backdrop of a big, bustling city would be perfect for this poem.