Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin'

who wrote The Times They Are A-Changin'?

Bob Dylan

Genre of The Times They Are A-Changin'?

Poetry

Form of The Times They Are A-Changin'?

Album

Year The Times They Are A-Changin' was published?

1964

poetry

expresses vivid imagination/experience via connotative language

poetic devises

meter, rhyme, repetition

meter

stressed and unstressed syllabus based on a sentence’s tendency to establish a dominant beat.

rhyme

similar sounds with final stressed syllables

repetition

reciting words/phrases/lines to convey urgency.

Types of poetry

short and narrative

short:

express ideas in crips & clever ways

-examples: Haiku, Sonnet, Couplet

narrative:

stories of romance, heroism, history. they are called ballads and often set to music.

-english ballads= four-line stanzas + refrain

why did Bob Dylan write –“Only a Pawn in Their Game”

-Evers’ killer “just a pawn”- part of bigger game

-”divide and rule”

-systematic racism

why di Bob Dylan write –“Ballad of Hollis Brown” ?

-rural vs urban classism

-farmers/working class impacted by corporate takeover

-media not reporting on 7 yrs drought in rural Texas but on urban cities & corporate success to validate overseas wars.

Why did Bob Dylan write – “The Times, They Are a Changin’” ?

– “Anthem Of Change”

– “heroic individualism”

– calling writers/artists to keep an open mind

– exposing bias of elected officials

– warning those opposed to “social change” = aging