Word: dylan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Please don't sweat your exams. They'll be over very soon and their CSQ (Cosmological Significance Quota) is very small. Remember Dylan Thomas and how happy he would have been to be in Cambridge today. As he nostalgically wrote to one of his friends here: "Please have a thousand boilermakers for me and send me your stomach; I'll put it under my pillow...
...folk-rock singers and lyricists have pre-empted a sizable share of the primary poetic audience-the young. It may be that youth finds it easier to grapple with the social commentary found in Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" or in the political-protest songs of Bob Dylan than with the more complicated work of poets like Berryman. Or it may be that the poem as ballad is simply coming back into its own. In any case, the music world is experimenting with a revolutionary surrealism, and contemporary songwriters and poets are apparently enriching one another's work...
...John Wesley Harding -- Bob Dylan...
...three or four of them went out into the street in the comforting warmth of the Florida night and danced deliberately. "You want to hear some good music--not all this crap," the girl barked, turning on Frank Sinatra, greeted by the others as if he were a Bob Dylan piercing the night like a prophet. "Cheri," "Spanish Eyes," a strikingly syncopated version of "Three Coins." Strange to tell it was the most beautiful music session I have experienced in a long time. The music became a ferocious whole with the setting of gloom and ease and I assimilated...
...will make them men. "I Can See for Miles" deals with a person who can see his girl being unfaithful because he has telescopic vision like superman. The song deals with the same emotional situation as "I Heard it Through the Grapevine." "Disguises" expresses the same sentiment as Bob Dylan's "I Don't Believe You." The situation that the Who use are no less revealing about people than songs attempting to represent real life situations, like "Somethin' Stupid," since they require an interested listener to see a new situation, a new point of view, a different way of living...