The Screaming Maggot
"Dreams are at once fruit & outcry against an atrophy of the senses.
Dreaming is no solution." This is an excerpt from the notebook of Jim
Morrison. Although not all of his poems are as proverbial as this,
they each have a hidden message. In the traditional style of beat
poets, this message is told through the vocabulary, the characters,
and the subject matter of the poem.
The vocabulary of Morrison is very formal. He uses a lot of metaphors
and big, fancy words (although some are made up). His poem, "America
as a Bullring Arena" includes phrases such as "the cosmic spinal bebop
in blue," "A young Witch from N.Y. is laying novice hexes on my
brain-pan," "projecting images of embryo development on my
psychology," "The screaming maggot group-grope called life," and
"Democracy of souls." These are all very metaphorical examples and
each one is written in a way that one would not speak in. They are
things that would be acceptable in a poem or byword, but not in a
casual conversation.
"Then contact your local pub-
lic accountant (he'll tell you
how to spread the seeds of doubt)"
Conversations are also usually not told from one side with the other
person as the main character or rather the receiver of information.
Jim Morrison's poems are written this way with, essentially, no solid
characters at all. The closest things to characters in them are
references to general people or types of people as in the poem
"Lessons on Becoming." This poem has a perfect example of a Morrison
(stereotype) "character" in this line.
This is really no character at all, but rather a mentioned person.
Morrison's poems are not stories, so they have no need for characters.
Although some proverbs do have them, they do not need them. This is
hard to say for stories.
It is true that proverbs don't need characters, but they all most
certainly do need subject matter. The poetry of Jim Morrison is no
exception.
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Therefore, one can see that these poems although similar in their title and central image of the star differ in their themes, form and treatment of the author's ideas.
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and we find out this by the way they speak and the language they use.
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