What are your thoughts on Jim Morrison?
What are your thoughts on Jim Morrison?
He was a lunatic, but he had that charm
not literature
He was a poet.
nope
Just another poser from the flower power generation
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Drunken asshole
A legitimate talent. He is misrepresented both by those who adore him like some sort of demigod because they fall for his sexual/poetic charisma and by those who dismiss him as a talentless poser.
Much of his poetry/songwriting is, to my taste at least, of little worth. But that is true of most or almost all poets. His best stuff is quite good.
He had a great talent for conveying a sort of dark sensual romanticism and ecstatic being-unto-death existentialism influenced by Ancient Greece, 19th century French poets, existential philosophy, the beats, the modern urban society of LA, and so on.
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The world needs another Jim Morrison