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How Bob Dylan Writes a Protest Song

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52% Informative

This week , we're going to look at Bob Dylan from a purely literary perspective.

This week 's video will be a bit different than usual.

Instead, we'll read some Dylan lyrics on their own, as we would any other piece of literature.

Dylan wrote The Lonesome Death of Patty Carroll in 1963 , when he was still on his way to becoming an iconoclast.

Bob Dylan is creating a fiction based on real events in the real life of William Zanzinger's murder.

He's turning history into a parable with the goal of conveying a moral lesson.

Dylan uses the form of the song to reflect the content, and art form reflects the content.

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll has a lot of relevance to the current political moment in the U.S. Dylan's final verse makes incredible use of irony.

Dylan 's music isn't about grammar, it's about aesthetics and poetics, and this ambiguity encourages the listener to do a deeper reading of the chorus.

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37

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26

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52

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informal

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English

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37

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