How would you characterize the world that Ginsberg describes? Is he being accurate or is he using hyperbole? Second part:How does he...

Alan Ginsberg often spoke about the vast changes in the
world that took place at the end of World War II.  Ginsberg has affiliations with
Communists, more the theory than the practice, which is interesting since his family was
Russian. Therefore, there were many things that Ginsberg saw that had begun to open up
as far as art and culture goes. There were people against war, focusing more on Civil
Rights and embracing the diversity of a country that was used to celebrating the average
American family. Think Leave it to Beaver.

Ginsberg
describes his world accurately. Remember that he and the other Beats traveled in
different circles than most; often experimented with drugs and alcohol to gauge how they
would affect their activities and work. The latter became a focus as can be seen in
Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Some things, such as Giunsberg's Blake influence came about
through a drug induced haze as well as his own appreciation of Blake's
work.

As far as the quotes go, I posted this part
previously:

Most of the poem reflects all of these things.
First one should be aware that Ginsberg was Jewish; his friend and confidant Kerouac was
Roman Catholic. One of their favorite places to go, before they started to travel around
the world, was New York City - particularly Greenwich Village. In other works Ginsberg
addresses the culture of San Francisco and Mexicali. Ginsberg also makes it clear that
he is a homosexual and often finds himself in situations that he might not
otherwise.

Part 1:

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"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"

Part
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"... who studied Plotinus Poe St. John of the
Cross telepathy and bop kabbalah because the cosmos instinctively vibrated at their feet
in Kansas, who loned it through the streets of Idaho seeking visionary indian angels who
were visionary indian angels, who thought they were only mad when Baltimore gleamed in
supernatural ecstasy, who jumped in limousines with the Chinaman of Oklahoma on the
impulse of winter midnight streetlight smalltown rain, who lounged hungry and lonesome
through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the brilliant Spaniard to
converse about America and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship to
Africa"