> 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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