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Just how did this turn into Delmore Schwartz vs. Jom Morrision?
Actually, I'm sarcastically feigning not knowing how...I know how Delmore Schwartz got mentioned. It's because porkmarras wanted to name drop him & being seemingly incapable to do it in an honest, germane way, he threw it out there willy-nilly in a confrontational way.
Look, Delmore Schwartz is a literary figure. He was born to poor immigrants & fostered a poet's soul. sonicl is, on the other hand, some kid that likes to type annoying bragadoccio on internet message boards.
Just so we could possibly reach some smidgen of agreement here, I'll offer the following & I hope it lends some understanding.
Jim Morrision, as a poet, did a small amount of good work for which he will always be remembered & revered, but yes, Jim Morrison is overrated. What I mean by that is analagous to the visual art world as well. There are millions & millions of people that dig on Morrison's poetry & have never read the sonnets of Shakespeare or Alfred Lord Tennyson or even something more contemporary like Delmore Schwartz, Kingsley Amis or Pablo Neruda for instance, just like there are millions & millions of people that own books on M.C. Escher & Salvador Dali & know next to nothing about Marcel Duchamp or say, Mark Rothko.
At least Jim, due to his good influences & thoughtful understanding of the written word, points the way towards the study of mythology & psychology & the personal discovery of greater writers like those of the beat generation & also true masters like Poe & Blake.
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