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Jim Morrison “If my poetry aims to achieve anything it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel” (“Jim Morrison.” BrainyQuote)This quote by Jim Morrison refers to his poetry as being a voice to a deeper feeling of emotion, not the stereotypical poem. Born December 8th 1943 in Melbourne Florida, James Douglas Morrison son of George Stephen Morrison (a rear admiral) and Clara Clarke, they moved from military base to military base until finally settling in alexandria VA where he attended school and read literature by William Blake and many others. Jim Morrison was controversial, a powerful musician and a poet. Due to the fact that he changed music and pop culture in the late 60s. He made himself a legend from his controversial …show more content…

The Doors were booked to to play a gig on the Ed Sullivan show on september 17th 1967. There No. 1 hit “light my fire” got them the show. Even tho the doors were a different band compared to other bands that played on the show. Fifteen minutes to air time and the show had one thing to say to the band. In the song “light my fire” there are lyrics “girl, we couldn't get much higher” but they wanted them to change them to “girl, we couldn't get much better” the doors agreed to the change and went to play the show. When it came for them to play that song jim decided not to listen to the show directors and said the original lyrics. They were banned from playing the Ed Sullivan show ever again. (Sterlingwit.)On December 9th 1967 Jim was arrested on stage while playing a show. JIm Morrison was backstage making out with a female fan when a cop found them and told them to leave the area. Morrison Reportedly reacted by saying “Eat it”, the officer pulled out a can of mace and sprayed him. The officer didn't know it was the lead singer of the band and apologized. The show was delayed until Jim was well enough to see and play. Angry Morrison called out the police officer, and told the whole audience about what had just happened backstage. Calling the cop a “little blue man in a little blue hat” as well as “little blue pig”. He was arrested, but later chargers were dropped. (“Jim Morrison. …show more content…

Jim Morrison considered himself a shaman. Shamanism is one of many Pre - Christian religions. When Jim was a child he experienced something he says changed his life forever. Him and his family were driving though the new mexico highway and came upon an overturned truck. Next to the truck, a number of dead bodies were lying on the street. One of the passengers a medicine man who was in the process of passing into spirit. Jim believes that in this event the medicine man's spirit went into his body. It was his calling. A Shaman's mission is to teach others and to transcend ordinary consciousness. Jim had a reputation of testing boundaries, provoking others to come face to face with there own fears. (“Evolution) His substance abuse also had a role in his lyrics and poetry. Ray Manzarek said “Before L.A Woman Jim's self abuse had not yet affected his literary output or sense of songwriting”. Jim Would pass out on stage and in the studio. Robby Krieger said “When Jim Wrote lyrics, we were never stupid enough to ask what they meant. We knew we wouldn't get a solid answer”. His lyrics were only something he could understand the real deep meaning to. Jim was also influenced by surrealism or any concept of getting in twine with the subconscious. He wrote about this is songs like “Break on through”. “It's about infinite expansion of reality, a

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In “Something Wicked This way Comes”, Ray Bradbury uses the archetype of the unhealable wound to develop Jim’s character. Jim’s unhealable wound is that he wants to die. In chapter 9, his mother asks him if he will ever have kids and his response is that there is no use in “making more people”(9:19) because “people die”(9:19), and later in that same chapter, he thinks about climbing up and taking the lightning rod down. Since the lightning rod is meant to protect him, he must have a morbid death wish. Later in the chapter, it gives a reason as to why he might have this death wish because it says that Jim’s mother has a face “that had been hit a long time ago.

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Though he is away from Nebraska he does not consider his best days far behind him. Jim repeatedly mentions how the people and the moments of Black hawk have become integrated into his daily thoughts. In regards to these friends and experiences he stated, “whenever my consciousness was quickened, all those early friends were quickened within it, and in some strange way they accompanied me through all my new experiences. They were so much alive in me”. In this third book where Jim is attending college Lena decides to visit him.

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Morrison was a gifted songwriter (wrote most if not all the Doors music, although all 4 members at some point and thought of himself as a poet) with a great voice remarkable antics that typically either got him, or his band into trouble. Morrison wrote and always was on vocals; occasionally having a tambourine with him at the mic. Jim’s crazy and reckless lifestyle sent him into a spin, a violent drunk and a drug addict, this eventually would catch up to him and tragically in 1971 we lost one of the greatest entertainers ever to a death at 27 – likely attributed to heroin and other complications.

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