Artist & Poet

Lana Del Rey & Allen

Ginsberg
By Leslie Gutierrez
Allen Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in
Newark, New Jersey, he died on April
Ginsberg 5,1997 at the age of 70, he was one of the
20th century’s most influential poets. He
became one of the founding fathers of the
Beat Generation, Allen was a prolific writer
who championed anti-war movements,
protesting the Vietnam war and gay rights.
He was recognized as one of America's
foremost writers and artist icons. Allen
popular poem is “Howl”. Allen Ginsberg won
the 1974 National Book Award for The Fall
of America: Poems of these states
1965-1971.
Lana Del Rey Lana Del Rey is an award-winning singer and
a songwriter, also known as Lizzy Grant and
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant. She is american
women, born in June 21,1985, New York City.
She started to write songs and performed in a
young age, she had suffered with drugs and
alcohol rehabilitation, She always sing but
didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. Lana Del
Rey released her album called Born to die and
it charted at number 1 on the UK album chart.
She won several awards for her amazing
brilliant performances, for examples she won
Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist
and the ECHO Award for Best International
Female Artist Rock/Pop.
 Allen Ginsberg was an early influence to Lana Del

The Rey because he was an beat poetry movement and

what she got from allen is that you can tell a story
through kind of painting pictures with words and

inspiration when she found out that she could have a

profession doing that. It became her passion,
playing with words and poetry. In an interview

behind the some person ask her a question about her song
called Ultraviolence asking her what are you trying
to say in the song and her response was that from

Legend a “personal experiences she had a person who

believed in breaking you down to build you back
up again. Although the mindset didn’t really agree
with me, there was something freeing in letting go
and it’s a little bit about being in love with the act
of surrendering about being confused whether
thats a good idea.”
 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,
 The events of Allen Ginsberg life and events
going on in the world around him inspired and
Poem Interpretation prepared to write howl. The poem is long but
part 1 deals with sympathetically with individual
cases, part 2 is about rejects the Moloch of
society with confounds and suppress
individual experiences and forces the
individual to consider himself mad if he does
not reject his own deepest senses, Part 3 is
about an expression of sympathy and
identification with Carl Solomon. When
ginsberg wrote howl it had a lot of activity
and emotions.
He use to call me DN
That stood for deadly nightshades
‘Cause I was filled with poison
UltraViolence by Lana Del Rey
But blessed with beauty and rage
Jim told me that
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
Jim brought me back
Reminded me of when we were kids
This is ultraviolence
Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence
I can hear sirens,sirens
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
I can hear violins, Violins
Give me all of the ultraviolence
He use to call me poison
Like I was poison ivy
I could’ve died right then
‘Cause he was right beside me
Jim raised me up
He hurt me but it felt like true love
Jim taught me that
Loving him was never enough
 Lana Del Rey said that ultraviolence
is not a song about domestic violence
Song Interpretation but rather a song that explores the
dark relationship that has with
oneself and it’s a song that explores
the dark side of the self and uses
the famous word from Anthony
Burgess famous book. She also said
that sometimes when she write about
her feelings, about what sounds like
a person, she is actually writing
about the way she felt when she
was completely inebriated, which it
was really good until it didn’t worked
about for her anymore.
I saw the best minds of my
Poem: Literary Devices
generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked, dragging
themselves through the negro streets Hollow-Eyed:
at dawn looking for an angry fix,
Personification
angelheaded hipsters burning for the
ancient heavenly connection to the
starry dynamo in the machinery of Darkness of cold-water flats
night, who poverty and tatters and floating across the tops of
hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking cities: Hyperbole
in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating across the
tops of cities contemplating jazz,
He use to call me DN
That stood for deadly nightshades
‘Cause I was filled with poison
Song: Literary Devices
But blessed with beauty and rage
Jim told me that
He hit me and it felt like a kiss Ultraviolence- Anaphora
Jim brought me back
Reminded me of when we were kids
This is ultraviolence Kiss, Kids- End Rhyme
Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence
I can hear sirens, sirens Cause I was filled with
He hit me and it felt like a kiss
I can hear violins, Violins
posion-hyperbole
Give me all of the ultraviolence
He use to call me poison
Like I was poison ivy But,Blessed,Beauty-
I could’ve died right then
‘Cause he was right beside me Alliteration
Jim raised me up
He hurt me but it felt like true love
Jim taught me that
Loving him was never enough
Ultra-Howl
He use to call me DN
That stood for deadly nightshades
‘Cause I was filled with poison and I saw the best mind
of my generation destroyed by madness

Angelheaded hipsters burning for ancient heavenly

connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery night
but blessed with beauty and rage
 Work Cited
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/lana-del-rey-15866.php

http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/lana-del-rey

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/21/323209791/lana-del-rey-i-dont-have-other-people-in-mi
nd

https://www.biography.com/people/allen-ginsberg-9311994

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859483149/

http://www.plosin.com/beatbegins/projects/kaeufer.html