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Jacqueline 09:22 pm UTC 10/23/10 |
| In reply to: | Steinman-esque Poetry - Croftie 11:14 am UTC 10/23/10 |
| F Scott Fitzgerald writes novels like Jim songs. Especially The Great Gatsby - which is very Steinmanesque in theme as well. Tag line for the Gatsby: He risked it all to give first love a second chance. Tag line for Anything For Love: I have travelled across the universe through the years to find her. Sometimes going all the way is just a start… > Jim’s music and lyrics, for me, are often reminiscent of > the dramatic monologues of the nineteenth century poet > Robert Browning. His characters, like Jims, abide in an > extreme, psychotic, obsessed and debased universe, a world > amplified to operatic proportions and governed by impulse > and lust. > > I can never read ‘Pophyria’s Lover’, in particular, > without thinking of Jim. It starts as two lovers meet on a > stormy night (I always hear Wagnerian chords pulsating > menacingly in the background – Dark Entwined with > Darkness, or The Storm), and then the narrator, after > experiencing a moment of intense bliss, decides, in order > to preserve this moment for all eternity, to strangle his > lover with a lock of her golden hair. He then peels back > her dead eyelids and gazes into her eyes, and, propping > her lopping head on his shoulder, congratulates himself. > > Browning also famously wrote ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’, > which always presents itself to me as a prequel to Jim’s > vision of Neverland. The wronged Piper (Hook) deceives the > parents of Hamelin and leads away their children (The Lost > Boys) away to a Cave (Obsidian) where they are to be lost > forever. > > Is there any other poetry that reminds people of Jim’s > visions? > | |
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