Howl Group A

I don't think that it is a chant. I think the constant repetition of "who" relates back the the title of the poem "Howl". If you keep repeating the word "who" it sounds a bit like your howling. In the second part when the author kept repeating "Moloch" I got the idea that "Moloch" wasn't one person or one thing. Then I did a little research and learned that Moloch was an ancient Semitic God. He is referred to as someone or something that requires a costly sacrifice. I feel like that might relate to the author's drug use, because you can't take drugs without sacrificing things like your sanity(he even wrote about various treatments to cure insanity). I feel as if his use of the word is the previous meaning I just mentioned and also some large place or idea, because, it says "They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us". Does anyone else have any ideas about Moloch? One other thing that confused me in the reading was when he mentioned pingpong(several times). Is he talking about playing ping pong or is there another meaning for this?