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Dorothy Parker Vicious Circle
1,984 wordsBorn in Chicago and raised in Woodbury, New Jersey, just across the state line from Philadelphia, Patti's mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer cum waitress. Her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant; she was the oldest of four siblings: her sisters Linda and Kimberly (the latter plays mandolin on Gone Again's "Ravens, "), and brother Todd. Unable to find her place in high school society, she took refuge in the images of Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, James Brown, and the Rolling Stones. Dropping out o...
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Fell In Love Jim Morrison
3,458 words... specially a car), a game, war, or a reaction to a physical force. Lakoff notes that a particularly important fact about the collection of metaphors used to understand lust in our culture is that their source domains overlap considerably with the source domains of metaphors for anger. "The domains we use for comprehending lust are hunger, animals, heat, insanity, machines, games, war, and physical forces" (Lakoff, 415). Here are some culture-specific examples from Morrison's poetry: "For seve...
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Jim Morrison External Reality
6,679 wordsMetamorphose. An object is cut off from its name, habits, associations. Detached, it becomes only the thing, in and of itself. When this disintegration into pure existence is at last achieved, the object is free to become endlessly anything. Jim Morrison, from The Lords PART I The Sex Revolts (Harvard University Press, 1995), Reynolds and Press exciting book which looks at rock rebellion from the perspective of gender revolution, characterizes THE DOORS creativity (1965 - 71) in terms of a phall...
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Allen Ginsberg Work
880 wordsRimbaud and Ginsberg as Modern Poets Anyone who has read a fair sampling of modernist poetry or studied some representative visionary poets has found the experience something of a revelation. Immediately exhilarating for some, initially intimidating for others and, for all of us, a profound departure from traditional literature. According to Rimbaud, for a poet to be absolutely modern he must become a visionary and a poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless and systematized disor...
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Rimbaud Poetry Life
368 wordsPart II A man so confused and confusing as Arthur Rimbaud, it is a wonder that he can even be analyzed, critiqued, and judged by his literary works. Never the less it has been done, however how accurate can they be, when even Rimbaud said in his Lettre Du Voyant that for the I is someone else. That Much is clear to me: I am a spectator at the blossoming of my own thought. Charles Whimbley (essay date 1899) tried to explain where Rimbaud was coming from and how he came up with the prose that he d...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,230 wordsWhen considering the importance of literature from the 19 th century based on its value as a precursor of 20 th century values, Arthur Rimbaud's poem The Drunken Boat stands out. His symbolist contemporaries all made significant contributions through their development of the symbol as a means to evoke particular emotions and their progression of language. Where Rimbaud stands out among his contemporaries is in his theme that permeates The Drunken Boat, a theme that is as much a precursor of thin...
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