OK so I am still in the process of figuring out this poem but so far this is what I have come up with;
It seems as though he wrote this poem due to a strong urge to express a certain emotion or opinion about the 1950s, it appears to be an observation; he seems angry or maybe disapointed (negative emotion) about that time period "I saw the best minds get destroyed........and the blond & naked angel came to pierce them with a sword”. Maybe the generation is seperating because some people do not act in accordance to how they should at that time period. He also refers to the words; dreams, heaven, angels, this can probably have somehting to do with the unconscious or the unknown. I feel like he is describing the events that affected him the most, this poem kind of reminds me of the Levertov's "February Evening in New York" because she also describes her observations in a way but not as detailed as Ginsberg. Need more time to put more thoughts into this poem though, very interesting poem this is. I like.
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See my comments on Constanza's, Christine's and Andrea's blogs, as well as exercises and study sheets on Bb for help, here. The visionary moments are one half of an image pattern you'll see throughout the poem, which moves simultaneously in real and supernatural/surreal realms, or bends the real toward the surreal, since distortion, or "madness" can sometimes be a wedge to insight
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