Breaking Down the Walls of My Heart

Twenty-two year old singer/songwriter Dodie Clark has become internet-famous with her cheerful jingles and poetic introspection. With over a million subscribers, her youtube channel- affectionately named “doddleoddle”- draws in countless individuals to bear witness to her hours of musical content. Dodie is known, in fact, for her ability to write lyrics which are poetry first and music second. Clark, in her 2016 song “When,” employs metaphor to invoke imagery, euphemism, and indirect self-addressment in an effort to articulate her plea that she finally begin to take initiative and live her life

At only 22, he was crowned the voice of a generation. His audiences became mesmerized with his expressive lyrics and soulful harmonica. He changed the way the world looks at songwriting and protest, and inspired countless future musicians from the moment he stepped up on the stage in his railroad hat, denim jacket, and harmonica brace. However, it is clear that there is so much more behind Bob Dylan than just a rough voice and a collection of poetic songs. As one man said about Dylan’s early days in Greenwich Village, “There’s a quality of determination and of will that some people have that when they’re doing something, they’re really doing it and you

Growing up in San Francisco was not easy. My life has been a up hill battle. I’vealways been a free spirited person. Always loved sometimes loved the wrong people. I grew up in San Francisco. Most people think of San Francisco as this wonderful free love place. Well it’s not this wonderful free love place. Fillmore is what my neighborhood was called. This Fillmore place was a very dark violent place. Many don’t make it out. Either you die young, or you go out on drugs. I always wanted more out of life. I always felt that if I could escape this dark unkind place I would be a better person. Sometimes as a child I would dream of living in a real family setting. You know a father that lived with my mother and I. “A real family not a dysfunctional one”. School has always been a outlet for me. I could go to school and learn, learn, learn. I’ve always been

Arguably one of the most powerful of Dylan’s social issue charged song is The Death of Emmet Till, a young black man who was unrightfully killed by the Ku Klux Klan. By 1963, Dylan and his on and off lover Joan Baez were both very well known in the civil rights movement. Baez and Dylan would sing together at rallies including the famous March on Washington. Dylan was on stage with Martin Luther King Jr. when his gave his infamous I Have a Dream speech. Though Dylan sang of American injustices, he was never incredibly interested in politics and he was ultimately frustrated by people defining him solely as a protest singer. Dylan’s frustrations with the unsought political branding are expressed in It Ain’t Me Babe, which “appears to be a song about rejected love, [it] was actually his rejection of the role his reputation and fans had thrown on him” (Carlson).

Remember when you and I started down life’s road having no idea what life would bring but there we were so young and free ready to build castles just to fulfill our dreams you would be my knight upon a white steed I’d greet you day and night from the castle balcony now that castle has faded some and the knight has hair peppered with white the steed is longing to retire but our dreams we still dare to dream for love is still ours so many things still left unsaid so many things still ahead the dreams we shared some are with us still we’ve learned that the best things in life are always free and it is the simple things that bring great joy to us and that you and I will always be in love like the first time when we

Connor's face comes to mind, wind ruffling his hair, a smile on his face. My heart twists in the way only love can do, full of warmth and light and yet with the sharp stab of missing him here and I continue to sing.

"Come gather round people where-ever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone, if your time to you is worth savin' then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin'!" (Dylan, 88)

-Blanton, Amy. 'Bob Dylan An Impact On American Society'. dartmouth. N.p., 2001. Web. 27 Aug. 2015.

I’ve tried my hardest, pushed my limits, Burned my mind to try to stop myself, But never have I succeeded. I’ve only walked the road of failure, The skies a burning, scarlet red, The cement and paint cracking and crumbling Beneath my feet.

I can see the way Aimee looks at me. I know what she wants, because I feel it too.

The sun is hiding behind the ever-deserving clouds. I’m hungry for her. I want her by my side so I can watch her sleep. To watch her read as she does each night. Line after line of each book, scanning them with her pure sultry eyes of blue. Her laugh is hammered into my head, her lips pressed into my mind. Her soul is always with me but her body has long endured abandonment while I lay and solemnly write words. Words that will make me money and bring me hopeful fame. Money makes the world go round, though love brings light into it. Without love I’d rather be a penniless man. Without Laura I’d rather

We open windows to each other but we live alone in the house if the hearts” (148). . The heart emotionally reacts to the actions people make or memories they have. Every moment people spend their lives flashes by as quick as a heartbeat. If people choose to spend their life negatively and apathetically then they do not value their life. If they spend every moment with people they love then they relationships with others to stimulate

Dylan made the people really dig down inside of their souls to find an answer. Dylan asked, “How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?” The answer Dylan had been simply ‘Blowin In The Wind’. Dylan left the questions open-ended because he himself did not truly know the answers. Dylan was making the nation think for themselves rather than speaking with the normality of their family and friends.

Duluth Minnesota, May 24th 1941 Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) was born. 69 Years and over 45 albums later Bob Dylan has completely altered the face of popular music since his debut as a fresh faced folk singer in 1962. His early career forged him into an informal chronicler and then he later developed into an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest [Gray, 2006] and became a voice for a generation. His songs have been covered by many artists in a wide span of genres and he has remained a prominent and highly influential figure in the history of popular music over the past five decades. [Gates, David, 1997]

When a relationship fails, it is because one or both parties involved gives up. Giving up on a relationship is always hard because it means someone’s feelings are going to be