Bob Dylan Influence

Robert Allen Zimmerman, mostly know as Bob Dylan, has recently received the Nobel Prize for Literature being the first songwriter to ever win it. In order to achieve this nomination, it all initiates with the Swedish Academy that constitutes of 18 members that will evaluate nominations. Once it that has occurred, the Academy will send out invitations to a specific group of people between 600-700 individuals that have the chance to participate, and they must follow specific deadlines in order to be qualified (“Nomination and Selection of Literature Laureates”). The spark effect around the world is how Bob Dylan, a lyricist, received this award since it is only given to authors. However, his activism in society as Corbett states, “During the height of his activism in the fall of 1963, he was already soaking up Beat influences and French modernism, and his craft was becoming less literal and much more poetic and literary” (Corbett 1), made him different than any other songwriter. Bob Dylan, a …show more content…
With the use of these figures of speech, he gets the endorsement from the young adults, and teenagers, who will be the future leaders and will keep these ideals with them. Present in his song “Chimes of Freedom”, imagery conveys the primary principle in this song, “The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder” (Dylan 18), and “For the disrobed faceless forms of no position” (Dylan 26), providing its audience how people during that time period did not have a saying to anything. In this occasion, the idea of the cracked sky and the faceless forms of no positions evokes the destroyed opinion of the society, and with Dylan’s writing it is evident that the appeal to the audience is coherent. Dylan’s use of imagery influenced on his Nobel Prize due to the fact that poetry contains this literary device in