Howl

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”Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness!” Fire god of the Canaanites referred to in Leviticus 18:21: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech." Worship of Moloch involved the sacrifice of children by fire.[56][75]
”Moloch whose buildings are judgement!” A reference to Urizen, one of William Blake's four Zoas.[75]
"Crossbone soulless jailhouse and congress of sorrows..." and “Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy the cafeterias filled with the millions!” A reference to God's Man, a graphic novel by Lynd Ward which was in Ginsberg’s childhood library.[76]
From "Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!" to "Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!" A reference to several films by Fritz Lang, most notably Metropolis in which the name "Moloch" is directly related to a monstrous factory. Ginsberg also claimed he was inspired by Lang's M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.[77]
"Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows!" Ginsberg claimed Part II of "Howl" was inspired by a peyote-induced vision of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco which appeared to him as a monstrous face.[49][77][78]
From "Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks!" to "Moloch whose name is the Mind!" A reference to Ezra Pound's idea of usury as related in the Cantos and ideas from Blake, specifically the "Mind forg'd manacles" from "London". Ginsberg claimed "Moloch whose name is the Mind!" is "a crux of the poem". [79]