Posted on 10/16/2016 11:31:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan
A lot of people seriously think Andrew Wyeth isn’t a good painter because so many people love his work. I understand the frustration of the classicists; but there was something gut-level in his lyrics that not only touched many, but lasted. Little fragments just spoke to me then, and continue to resonate, like “waiting only for my boot heels to be wandering...” and many other lines that spoke out of a deep perspective on the generation of which he is a part. It was always fascinating to me how he absorbed the Scots-Irish linguistic quirks that characterized rural speech of the early last century. Sometimes, there was pointed meaning; other times, he just painted with word sounds like an abstract impressionist does with blobs of color.
On another thread, someone posted the final stanzas of Mr. Tambourine Man:
Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow…
Reminds me of the days when hippies sat around taking hits from a bong and talking about how “Ripple” (Grateful Dead) was “...like so deep and spiritual, man....”
hahahahahahahahaha Classic Steyn
Strawman.
The question is not whether Bob Dylan is a very gifted songwriter. The question is whether his words - words only, not music - are some of the top literary production in the world.
In my opinion, the idea that he has achieved this quality as a poet is largely the understandable nostalgia of sixties-people.
I don't expect Gerard Way to make it to the Nobel podium, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if Stan Lee did.
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