Jim D: >I always thought that it was romanticizing the coming of the Messiah or something like that. The nature of poetry (or, if you will, "poetry") is that it can be interpreted in more than one way. Of course, during the 1960s, a lot of lefties did interpret the song as romanticizing revolution.<
Joan Baez says the song was written after a hotelier denied Dylan permission to stay in her room. He was pissed. He had to stay elsewhere and wrote the song overnight. There's nothing inherently wrong with romanticizing revolution. It depends on the context. Terry _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
