![]() To further emphasise this point, Ginsberg marries and associates religion with politics, a clearly mundane concept with higher power. It essentially backs the concept of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), while expressing the notion that Heaven is not superior to humans and implies that Heaven is everywhere around us. This can be seen in line 89 of Howl, ‘They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!’ Moloch is the name of an ancient Hebrew god, seen in scripture. He explores this by humanizing divine concepts. Ginsberg challenges the traditional dogma, wanting communion with a higher power. A mystic is defined as a person who claims to attain, or believes in the possibility of attaining, insight into mysteries transcending ordinary human knowledge, as by direct communication with the divine or immediate intuition in a state of spiritual ecstasy. To offer a little more context and specification: Ginsberg while could be very likely be considered a religious poet, could be even more distinctly considered a mystic poet. ![]()
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