Hello!
I am Nidhi Jethava and I am a student of MK Bhavnagar University English Department. Today In this blog I am going to answer some of the questions regarding Bob Dylan and Robert Frost’s works. One of the interesting things about my department is that after completing a particular unit from the syllabus, the respective faculty gives us thinking activity. It will help us to enhance our thinking skills.
Q.1 Which Bob Dylan song has made an impact on you? Why? Can you find a song similar to the same theme in another language?
Answer :
About Bob Dylan:
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning nearly 60 years.
In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
MY favorite song by Bob Dylan is’ Like a rolling stone’ .
Lyrics
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh you've gone to the finest schools, alright Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You say you never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
A complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ah you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discovered that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To have on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel, ah how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Why do I like this song the most ?
In this song I have something like ‘ Fairy Tales’. The writer talks about one girl. The theme of the song is danger of living potential life. Going along with the crowd and not treating anybody appropriately. In the beginning portion we came across one woman.
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
We can see that the writer talks about one lady and her life experiences. This song expressed resentment rather than love. Mr. Lonely as the protagonist addresses. She had attended a great school and lived a great life but she lost so many things for her own freedom.
Somewhere this song is for all women who want to live life full of liberty and passion.
Song somewhere has the same thing:
I Want to Break Free by Freddy Mercury:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ
Lyrics
I want to break free
I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies
You're so self satisfied I don't need you
I've got to break free
God knows, God knows I want to break free.
I've fallen in love
I've fallen in love for the first time
And this time I know it's for real
I've fallen in love, yeah
God knows, God knows I've fallen in love.
It's strange but it's true
I can't get over the way you love me like you do
But I have to be sure
When I walk out that door
Oh how I want to be free, Baby
Oh how I want to be free,
Oh how I want to break free.
But life still goes on
I can't get used to, living without, living without,
Living without you by my side
I don't want to live alone, hey
God knows, got to make it on my own
So baby can't you see
I've got to break free.
I've got to break free
I want to break free, Yeah
I want, I want, I want, I want to break free
Q.2 Which poem of Robert Frost has made an impact on you? Why?
Answer :
My favorite poem by Robert Frost is that ‘ The Road Not Taken’
About Robert Frost :
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States.
He won four Pulitzer prizes for his poems.
2.) The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Why I like this poem the most :-
Have you ever faced a situation where you have two options and you have to choose one without knowing about any of them ?
Or
We can say You are going into some forest and suddenly you come across two ways and you have to choose one and you have no idea about any of them.
Answer is yes, because each and every human finds the same situation in their entire life. Life so many times gives us two paths or two choices.
Ex. After passing 10th we have three paths for our journey.
The same theme this poem consists of. The speaker of the poem passes through the forest and he has to choose one way out of two. He might not be aware of any of them. He has a great dilemma for choosing one way. In the last part of the poem we come to know that the speaker talks about the future and after choosing one path he will say which path he has chosen was less chosen .
This poem is quite similar with all and every human. That’s why I like this poem the most.
Thank you…..
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