Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What do you think of this poem?

I can see that you love the doors. Well, i love them to. Anyway Jim Morrison was a very intense poet. In that first poem, in the song The End, he was originally writing about one of his loves that he was saying goodbye to. Morrison wrote a lot about insanity and about his own feelings. Some of the things that happened to him as a child affected his lyrics to much extent. The part where he kills his father and sleeps with his mother is similar to the story of Oedipus, who does this same thing unintentionally. He also did a lot of drugs- Ride the snake, the blue bus is calling us, and many more in this song refer to the use of acid. A good majority of these lyrics were added on stage in a concert, so some was improvised, and then added on to the studio version. The second poem tells you how to live life in the fullest-Jim Morrison style. I wouldn't over analyze it to much, however. Just see it as the true art that it is.

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