Profound, Poetic Rock and Roll by Bob Dylan

Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gente Into That Good Night and Catherine Davis' After a Time

The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums. To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum and to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger. No one doubted that he pulled the trigger. And though they could not produce the gun, the D.A. said he was the one who did the deed and the all-white jury agreed.” In this verse Dylan is making a point that not only were the Patterson police trying to make an example out of Hurricane but also the D.A. and the overseeing judge.

Bob Dylan and the Beatles, two of the biggest music phenomena from the 1960`s up till today, has despite different musical styles and different target audiences influenced each other in several ways throughout their careers. The Beatles was arguably the main influence that lead Dylan to go electric, as well as writing a tribute to John (and the Beatles) in one of his latest albums. Bob on the other hand, introduced the Beatles to try pot on their first meeting and inspired Lennon and the others to change their music style and write more introspective, political and acoustic music. …..With similar backgrounds both from industrial cites, Bob Dylan from Duluth, a seaport city in Minnesota and the Beatles from Liverpool and both growing up with the same

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, when cold war tensions were at an all time high in the United States, Bob Dylan wrote a song that would become known as A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, which depicted the world after a nuclear cataclysm. He song provided imagery such as “a newborn baby with wild wolves around it” and “a young woman whose body was burning” (Dylan). Compared to Sinatra, Dylan’s music was extremely politically motivated and used to push a message, it was also composed by Dylan himself. This difference is most likely due to Sinatra’s origin in the Big Band era of Swing Music, where a singer would exist as part of a large ensemble if one existed at all, and the band director would be primarily in charge of songs that the orchestra performed. Whereas Dylan was a child of the Folk Music revival, which valued music less for setting a mood but rather as a means for creative expression for a given artist. Even if a difference in era is the root in Dylan’s music being far more politically motivated, it did lead to him being able to have a large amount of influence of the political views of his listeners. Dylan was also notoriously racially tolerant, with the singer Victoria Spivey saying that to him “Everybody was people, not color” (Sounes, Chapter 3). One of Bob Dylan’s biggest hits was Blowin’ In The Wind,

Civil rights movements, “a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s” (Civil Rights Movement). It always followed a rule, which is the nonviolence. For example Martin Luther King, his opinion for the civil rights movement was nonviolent protests. There are some people disagreed with it, they believed revolution must come up with the violence, like Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. In the meantime, many famous songs have been created for supporting the civil rights movement, such as “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”, “If You Miss Me at the Back of Bus”, “Only a Pawn in Their Game”, “Say it Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud”, and “A Change Is Gonna Come”.

“ The title track of Dylan's 1964 album The Times they are a-Changin' has become one of the most famous protest songs ever written. Though articulating the hopes of the Sixties folk generation, Dylan's creation has proved to possess an enduring cross-generational appeal.”(Thompson, Jennifer). Not only did Bob Dylan influence the listener, he also influenced many other writers throughout his music. Some people did not feel that they should share their personal opinion with the public, but Bob Dylan thought differently. An example of this is shown in his song “The Times They Are Changing”, Mr. Dylan explains in the song that race is unimportant and humans should not be seen by the color of your skin, we should just see other people. Bob Dylan explains that he wrote this song because "I wanted to write a big song, with short concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. The civil rights movement and the folk music movement were pretty close for a while and allied together at that time." (Barnes,

As for this, he was known as the world's most influential singer and songwriter. “I'm really thrilled about this gong for Bob. He created the anthems, the love songs, and the anti-love songs that defined the post-1968 generation and still resonates today. He is the subtlest rhyme artist - captures unspoken meanings in the modulations of his rhyme”(Rainbird).In the song, “The times they are a changin’”, Bob Dylan uses imagery to portray a detailed image in the listener's mind of the horrendous changes that were taking place in the United States. The imagery reflects the poetry in Bob Dylan's work. In the first stanza, “Come gather ’round people/Wherever 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 1-9). Line 1-2 , Dylan is calling to the people, lines 3-6, he is asking people to come together to see what's going on through the country; that if they don't realize that things need to change, the country in going to stay the same. In lines 7-9, he says that the people better stand up in what the county is going through, otherwise the worst is to come. By using imagery, Dylan reflects the overall theme of the song “The times they are a changin’”. Another literary device used in this song was repetition. In line 9, Dylan repeatedly said “For the times they are a-changin’’(Dylan 9). This is also found on line 18,27,36, and 45. Dylan repeated this to convey his message to his listeners that times are changing. ”Dylan and his associates seem to have understood what he was creating as an enactment of a mode of being that was not about him as a person but was the product of something that exceeded him, something searching for expression that

Music has existed as a concept ever since the conception of the human race. The value of music has yet to be determined, as coming down to a precise conclusion on the impact music has had on the course of history will force humanity to confront the essence of humanity itself. Bob Dylan is an impeccable example of a prime character whose niche was the act of validating the human experience because many of his music pieces fixated on beat culture. Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential artists in American society. Dylan contended that his politics were an essential element of his songs and that the social issues he chose to address were much more important than the music he wrote, one of his most prominent pieces, “A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall” - was influenced by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The poem “America” was filled with different feelings such as sadness, sarcasm, and mainly anger. This poem is filled with big questions and unflinching frustrations. Usually, when people sit down and converse about the way this country is run, it ends up in an uproar counterpart, least to say. In this poem Ginsberg argues directly with the country rather than with others, he takes a analytical look at the United States from both a political and social viewpoint, and uses both dull honestly and sarcasm to address his opinions. The first few lines make America appear like a misplaced lover, somebody that he once loved and saw great ability and potential in. “You made me want to be a saint” this line demonstrates a confession for the love

The 1960’s was a time full of art, music, and poetry. There wasn't a livelier and more full of action time. In this time period Bob Dylan, a world wide known American singer songwriter, has some of his best albums created. His work included some of the toughest subjects going on in the decade. His music turned heads and made others aware of the current situations going on in that time. Using his talent in writing complex songs and rhythmic melodies, and despite his challenges with the events going on during his prime time, bob dylan changed the world forever by creating a new and unique sound that created a new sound for the music industry.With Bob Dylan's unique poetry and rhythmic beats, he amazed and inspired a large range of people.

Bob Dylan is a singer-songwriter from Minnesota. He is a folk artist. He was born with the name Robert Allen Zimmerman but he later changed his name to Bob Dylan. One of Dylan's most famous songs is "Like a Rolling Stone". His music often has themes that are connected to the civil rights movement; and with anti-war movements. He has been a strong influence on American music and

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between dose what he wants to do” --words spoken by the singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Being a man of success himself, yet a very humble and simple man, changed the way people view musical quality. Dylan was awarded with the number one song in the twentieth century with those lyrics from his masterpiece Like a Rolling Stone, by Rolling Stone Magazine. His poetic words were heard all across the world, inspiring all who heard his voice. Telling tales of political and civil injustice, Dylan’s words brought normal everyday life a new sense of hope through tough times in a person’s life. Discussed will be the early era

My poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” was written by Dylan Thomas. He was born in Swansea, Wales on October, 27th, 1914. Dylan didn’t like school and dropped out when he was 16. In 1937, he married Caitlin Macnamara and they had 3 children, 2 boys and a girl.

Dylan utilizes enjambment in every stanza, which is a term used in poetry to refer to lines that end without punctuation and without completing a sentence or clause. The main theme of this folk song is stated in the title and in each stanza by using repetition of the words for the times they are a-changin. “During the course of the Sixties, "everything changed," says Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, who came of age in the Sixties. "It was much different in the Sixties." He points to the movement for women's rights, civil rights for blacks, an increase in tolerance for differences and diversity, and technological breakthroughs (Walsh).”

Robert Allen Zimmerman, commonly referred to as “Bob Dylan” in popular culture, is often decorated as a “spokesman for his generation” due to his songs that documented the residing social unrest throughout his career. Throughout the entirety of Dylan’s work, there is multiple comments on cultural attitudes and values - however, It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) from his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home, Is perhaps one of his most notable pieces regarding the challenging of cultural values and ideas. The lyrics express Dylan's anger at what he sees as the hypocrisy, commercialism, consumerism, and conformity prominent in contemporary American culture, but unlike those in some of his earlier protest songs, do not express optimism in the