I mean, he has won the Nobel price of literature...

He's popular, mainstream. Nothing that a lot of people like can have deep meaning. /s

I don’t disagree that he is a poet…but I do disagree that all of his songs have meaning. Especially in the mid-sixties I think he was more interested in piecing together words that sounded good phonetically over having any real meaning to them (ex. Subterranean Homesick Blues, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat) Then a lot of people will take every line and over-analyze and give some kind of meaning to it and come up with their own interpretation but if you asked Mr. Dylan himself, he would probably say something like whatever you think it means or I have no idea what it means. But yes, many of his songs are layered with deep meaning. Especially his earlier work and then Blood on the Tracks and Desire

Nobody is saying Bob Dylan isnt a poet...nobody who is taken seriously or is mainstream enough to be quoted. Still, it's hard to pose the question if everybody agrees on the answer.

He's not a poet

“Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky With one hand waving free” So imba. This line(s) is poetry unto itself.

If this is not poetry what is?

@@billh.1940 The answer is: Poor people have it. Rich people think they need it. What is it?

@@CipherSerpico don't know but the rich want everything from everyone. Me, I will settle for the love of a good woman, and peace of mind! Btw I have both. Peace and love 😘! The funnest thing was singers who sung don't think twice as a love song, but it is a breakup song. Sonny and Cher comes to mind. Go way from my window! 😂. I always thought mr tambourine was his dealer.

@@billh.1940 The poor have it; The rich _think_ they need it… “If this is not poetry, what is”? _Nothing._ The answers to your question, and to my “riddle” - are both _”Nothing”._ There’s a longer version of that “Riddle”, but i heard that when I was very young, and it always stayed with me, because-similar to what you said: I’ve never cared about being rich; I’ve always only cared about “love”, “beauty”, and all that jazz. So yeah, for whatever reason, that riddle popped in my head when I read your comment. 👊 Also… Two of my favorite covers of all time, are two Dylan covers. • “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” by *Dion* (DiMucci): ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kGaUeWOsiJefx6c.html • And, *Jon Martyn’s* version of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sqefp6GEaXik06s.html I think both of them did a brilliant job of reinterpreting the song. I would definitely recommend checking those out.

one of the best of all time at that

Desolation Row has to be one of the greatest long poems of modern time. There is no one way to interpret it, it is up to the listener or reader to decide. The call outs to grim historical events, and yet that isn't even the focus of the song.

Visions of Johanna and its alright ma are 2 of my favs

Was just thinking Desolation Row would have been a better study

Desolation Row is such a haunting work of art, it's insane. Its like going in trance with every listen. No wonder it inspired Watchmen. Greatness inspires greatness.

Same lol

His Nobel Lit prize a couple years ago really brought the question back

honestly same

There isn't, really. Poets can be pretty gatekeepy with what is and isn't poetry. But to me, the mere existence of free verse poetry means that if strings of sentences sound musical and beautiful when put together, they can be considered poetry in some way.

I always thought that it was something like "a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square" scenarios. Like lyricism is a form of poetry, but poetry is not lyricism.

It was a nursery rhyme album for his young daughter. It was a lame joke 10 years ago

@Eggbutt - Yale wants to know your location. (tbh Wiggle Wiggle is a hoot)

This ducking comment made me cry laughing

Dang...."wiggle wiggle".......LMFAO...eggbut..giggle..giggle..too

The entire Under The Red Sky was written for kids. Starting with the lyrics to the title song Under the Red Sky. Great song wiggle wiggle Who else but Dylan

Beautiful

Awesome 👏 👏 Young man.!!! Keep learning

You are a lucky young man. You are just beginning to discover the music of a true genius. There is a huge amount of incredible music to take in....

A drug deal.

@@diamondcomplex2376 No.

I understand this song.

Dylan admitted he wrote it to describe his wait for a pot dealer one night. Maybe not a drug dealer but that's what the song's about. Waiting for weed. Bwahaha ha ha ha.

@@JoeKoOhNo trolling. Classic Dylan

very important song in the development of psychedelic music

It's very good, but i'd have to say it's "Ballad of a Thin Man"

Tangled up in blue is a perfect example of Dylan's lyrical genius

Visions of Johanana is my favourite

Everything said here I affirm, but even his most direct is poetry unto itself. Hurricane Forever Young, Murder Most Foul, just to name the few. Though his most poetic I can say is All Along The Watchtower and Desolation Row.

Fun fact: TS Eliot is an anagram of toilets, just like Bob Dylan is an anagram of bony bald.

W.B.Yeats too

@@Eggbutts Or Bland Boy

@@Eggbutts or nobby lad

Kissinger and Obama won the Peace Prize so it is worthless. He is not a poet. Neruda is. Come on.

That's pretty good Mike.

Very true! He's like "The Stranger" archetype.

True, although Paul Simon keeps mocking Dylan in lot of songs. lol

@@zackzallie8735 Really? What songs ?

@@rman52 The song A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) by Simon and Garfunkel is one of the funny examples.

@@zackzallie8735 I think that one is actually a tribute to Dylan, not making fun of him. The whole song is in Dylan's style. And in the lyrics he makes fun of a guy that doesn't know Bob Dylan from Dylan Thomas. Now this one is a funny parody of Dylan. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/goWCeLChbYhk0Wg.html

@@zackzallie8735 One song with only two recordings back in the 60s hardly counts as "keep" mocking but okay xD

I agree with this totally about transcendence (or the sacred). However I do think Dylan i knew quite well what he was writing about. However because it was so, much a gestalt, a flow, I agree he probably did not want everything dissected like a frog on a table. which we do anyway

^ This guy Dylans!

So you are Peter Gabriel?

Desolation Row is a song. It is a masterpiece, but it’s not a poem.

​@@TheMarshmelloKingPoems are songs

@@keepthefaith6909No. poems are poems and songs are songs. Songs with poetic lyrics are ……… songs! Poems sung aloud are ? Of course this debate is semantic nonsense.

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” Great song.

It sure is a foreign sound to some ears.

But it's alright ma... it's life and life only. Thank you I wanted to make sure someone posted about it's alright ma. Imo, his best work and just as relevant today as it was upon its release. Hard rain gonna fall is amazing as well as far as a "poem" goes. His writing was just magical.

This is very interesting. I've always wondered how much craft there was to his songwriting. I do believe he edits a lot, but I guess it's all based more on feel rather than meter.

I think Bob was messing with Elton because charades is stupid 😆

Thank you for letting Bob borrow your coat

@@brown22sugar25 I’m so proud of myself for getting the reference you were making without having to think about it😂😂 (You are referencing the lyric from American Pie aren’t you? Just making sure I was right before I got too excited 😂)

@@jamesdean9183 yes

That's be sick Why dont you do it? :3

So true, this would make for a great video

something seems off about calling it second to none as well

@@thechordwizard8429 you're right, changing it. my bad I didn't notice it

It would be really cool if he made it into a series. Bowie, Dylan, Paul Simon, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, would all be good editions

Jimi Hendrix was basically trying to write like Dylan

I completly agree. That album has a very unique sound, and the lyrics were just as good. To me, 1975-1976 is Dylan at his second peak. His first being 64-66.

I’m not discounting your opinion but I’ll share mine as well. I don’t think Tarantula is poetry. It’s really just avant-garde stream of consciousness writing. 99% of it can’t be tied into the entirety as a whole, there’s very little to derive or analyze from it. I’ve really tried connecting the dots and it’s just impossible. I’m a huge English literary analysis nerd so I used a lot of techniques I like to use when analyzing books, none of it worked. I really do believe it’s just drugged up stream of consciousness writing. Not to say it’s bad, I don’t. think it’s good either though. It’s extremely interesting to read and it was a fun challenge to try to analyze though I found very little to make conclusions from.

It's meaningless and it sucks. I wasted forty-five minutes reading that piece of shit. Try Joyce if you want "intriguing" literature.

Brazillian here. He's a damn legend !

his consciousness is far beyond.

I've been wanting to go to Duluth and Hibbing to see where he was born and raised.

Not nearly as interesting as the video

Yes, a songwriter. Singular, objective answer.

@@Awesomebaconman123 drugs are medicine, tomato potato

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