The Screaming Maggot.

... The Screaming Maggot Taylor Rothbell "Dreams are at once fruit & outcry against an atrophy of the senses. Dreaming is no solution." This is an excerpt from the notebook of Jim Morrison. Although not all of his poems are as proverbial as this, they each have a hidden message. In the traditional style of beat poets, this message is told through the vocabulary, the characters, and the subject matter of the poem. The vocabulary of Morrison is very formal. He uses a lot of metaphors and big, fancy words (although some are made up). His poem, "America as a Bullring Arena" includes phrases such as "the cosmic spinal bebop in blue," "A young Witch from N.Y. is laying novice hexes on my brain-pan," "projecting images of embryo development on my psychology," "The screaming maggot group-grope called life," and "Democracy of souls." These are all very metaphorical examples and each

want to read more? →