Bob dylan, after being announced the winner of nobel literature prize 2016, suddenly attracts the attention of the world. When asking why Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, in an interview, answers that “He can be read and should be read, and is a great poet in the English tradition, and he is the wonderful sampler, very original sampler. He inbold the tradition and for 54 years now. He has been active, reinventing himself constantly, reinventing himself creating new identity.”(Sara Danius). Bob dylan was born in a Jewish family in Minnesota 1941. He started his career in 1960s with folk songs that reflect social issues such as civil rights. In
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Finally, in 1989, Dylan was inducted in the rock and roll Hall of Fame. Also he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2012. In “like a rolling stone”, Bob dylan is worthy of the Nobel prize of literature, because of his unique writing style and innovation idiom. With his cognizable husky voice and poetic lyrics, Bob dylan is considered the most influential singer and songwriter in 20 century. It was impossible that a teenage born in 60s never heard of Bob Dylan. Blanton wrote that “He took in all the events and emotions going on, took them in, rewrote them into prose, poetry, set them to music...and with that beautiful, honest form of liberation and song, set free minds, unlocked emotions, changed, revolutionized, influenced music, truth, protest, confusion, politics, rock-n-roll…” (Amy Blanton). By 1960s he becomes the weathervane of American pop culture. Blanton comments that “His footprints were so impressionable that a whole generation followed his …show more content…
Though Dylan is known as a songwriter, he also considers himself a poet. Dylan’s lyrics use more poetic techniques than practically anyone’s (Craig Teicher). In “like a rolling stone”, the most obvious one is the simile used in the title. Dylan compares a woman who has fallen from grace to “a rolling stone”, which has really draw the attention from the audience, why a woman is parallel to a rolling stone? Dylan answers this in the following lyrics. “Once upon a time you dressed so fine”, “With no direction home”, “You’re invisible now”(Dylan), all those lyrics suggests our “Mrs lonely”(Dylan) is no longer shiny, but a normal person with unpredictable future. Is not that exactly like a rolling stone which is so common and people never know when it is going to stop. The use of metaphor in “As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes”(Dylan) suggests the eye is going to take away everything she has got. Metaphor is also found in “Napoleon in rags”(Dylan), dylan refers it to people who have lost their money and fallen from their status. Instead of using direct language, those vague metaphors sharpening their imaginations to comprehend what is being communicated to them. Internal rhyme is also commonly used in the song, such as “dime in your prime”(Dylan) and “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”(Dylan). The sound repetition due to internal rhyme makes the story unified and
Finally, in 1989, Dylan was inducted in the rock and roll Hall of Fame. Also he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2012. In “like a rolling stone”, Bob dylan is worthy of the Nobel prize of literature, because of his unique writing style and innovation idiom. With his cognizable husky voice and poetic lyrics, Bob dylan is considered the most influential singer and songwriter in 20 century. It was impossible that a teenage born in 60s never heard of Bob Dylan. Blanton wrote that “He took in all the events and emotions going on, took them in, rewrote them into prose, poetry, set them to music...and with that beautiful, honest form of liberation and song, set free minds, unlocked emotions, changed, revolutionized, influenced music, truth, protest, confusion, politics, rock-n-roll…” (Amy Blanton). By 1960s he becomes the weathervane of American pop culture. Blanton comments that “His footprints were so impressionable that a whole generation followed his …show more content…
Though Dylan is known as a songwriter, he also considers himself a poet. Dylan’s lyrics use more poetic techniques than practically anyone’s (Craig Teicher). In “like a rolling stone”, the most obvious one is the simile used in the title. Dylan compares a woman who has fallen from grace to “a rolling stone”, which has really draw the attention from the audience, why a woman is parallel to a rolling stone? Dylan answers this in the following lyrics. “Once upon a time you dressed so fine”, “With no direction home”, “You’re invisible now”(Dylan), all those lyrics suggests our “Mrs lonely”(Dylan) is no longer shiny, but a normal person with unpredictable future. Is not that exactly like a rolling stone which is so common and people never know when it is going to stop. The use of metaphor in “As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes”(Dylan) suggests the eye is going to take away everything she has got. Metaphor is also found in “Napoleon in rags”(Dylan), dylan refers it to people who have lost their money and fallen from their status. Instead of using direct language, those vague metaphors sharpening their imaginations to comprehend what is being communicated to them. Internal rhyme is also commonly used in the song, such as “dime in your prime”(Dylan) and “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”(Dylan). The sound repetition due to internal rhyme makes the story unified and