Where is Bob my Dylan? :)
Poets are Singers in ancient time, and today too. Confucius compiled 300 Odes (Link1, Link2)that worshiped by ALL Chinese poets to nowadays, it's considered Number One Book tops all other Classics, and most of the poems are short, composed in song forms for singing. more love songs than political and other topic. Tang dynasty poems are originally composed to sing, Song dynastic lyrics (Song Ci, link1, link2) are all composed for singing, Yuan Dynasty opera lyric (Yuan Qu, link1, ) are composed to sing on the stage, on the dinner table.
Long poem is about structure of narrative, needs more time to work on. Homer
Epic poem thru time develops to drama, short story, prose, and novel.
Short poem is about density, craft art, scope in simplicity. Asian Poetry
Short poems are songs thru time develops into short verses that rhyme or not.
Sappho is another Greek example of songwriter poet. Many folksong writers possess better verse skill than poets, and simplicity is soul of poetry and art. (Scarborough Fair, The Wayfaring Stranger) (Psalm 23 to gain a huge flock of conservative evangelical head-nodders) Also, The Star-Spangled Banner of amateur poet Francis Scott Key (wikipedia calls amateur, but this poem is much better than mature professional academia famous poets, I rate the poems in two categories: poems that sing, a few; poems that suck, a lot :-). So I think the case is closed. If anyone hears the following Bob 2 songs and ponders on the lyrics would not mistake Bob Dylan is a songwriter Poet and a singer.
Of course many 4 eye pedants might jealous Nobel awards Bob the Literature prize, Why Not?
Bob‘s songs are more influential than many novels, a lot novels knock people to sleep reading 2 pages, and worse if readers stick it out still would not understand the ‘literature’ and multi-layered confusing theory styles and Oxford English Dictionary seems not enough, the readers have to get French, Italian, German, and Chinese Dictionaries would help them to complete the 500 pages journey that should end in really 50-100 pages, literally.
Literature is about Quality not Quantity in pages and units. One great song or a short poem beats 800 pages fancy words novel every time! Poets respect readers time.
Poetry exists in many forms, in novel, in lyrical essay (prose), in strict regulated verse, in haiku, epic, or even non-grammatical hodgepodge, exp: Writing by Marguerite Duras.
Also I bet many poets listen to Bob more than they read their own poems because good things last and pass under daily scrutiny.
I am happy Bob is awarded by Nobel, it’s been long time coming for other lyrical poets too since ancient time.
Two Bob Dylan’s song lyrics to state Bob is awesome poet. (also, be practical, go to Barnesnoble this weekend, leaf thru literature magazines, include the New Yorker and Poetry Mag, see if there are two better touching poems than the following, plus Bob's poems Sing)
Blind Willie McTell (Favorite Bob's Song)
Well, I heard that hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
Hear that undertaker’s bell
Nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
---
How many roads
must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas
must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times
must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
Yes, and how many years
can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years
can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times
can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
Yes, and how many times
must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears
must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths
will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
---
Favorite Bob Song List:
Blind Willie McTell
Blowin in the Wind
One More Cup of Coffee
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
A Hard Rain's, a Hard Rain Gonna Fall
Sara
She Belongs to Me
Like a Rolling Stone
Things Have Changed
Poets are Singers in ancient time, and today too. Confucius compiled 300 Odes (Link1, Link2)that worshiped by ALL Chinese poets to nowadays, it's considered Number One Book tops all other Classics, and most of the poems are short, composed in song forms for singing. more love songs than political and other topic. Tang dynasty poems are originally composed to sing, Song dynastic lyrics (Song Ci, link1, link2) are all composed for singing, Yuan Dynasty opera lyric (Yuan Qu, link1, ) are composed to sing on the stage, on the dinner table.
Long poem is about structure of narrative, needs more time to work on. Homer
Epic poem thru time develops to drama, short story, prose, and novel.
Short poem is about density, craft art, scope in simplicity. Asian Poetry
Short poems are songs thru time develops into short verses that rhyme or not.
Sappho is another Greek example of songwriter poet. Many folksong writers possess better verse skill than poets, and simplicity is soul of poetry and art. (Scarborough Fair, The Wayfaring Stranger) (Psalm 23 to gain a huge flock of conservative evangelical head-nodders) Also, The Star-Spangled Banner of amateur poet Francis Scott Key (wikipedia calls amateur, but this poem is much better than mature professional academia famous poets, I rate the poems in two categories: poems that sing, a few; poems that suck, a lot :-). So I think the case is closed. If anyone hears the following Bob 2 songs and ponders on the lyrics would not mistake Bob Dylan is a songwriter Poet and a singer.
Of course many 4 eye pedants might jealous Nobel awards Bob the Literature prize, Why Not?
Bob‘s songs are more influential than many novels, a lot novels knock people to sleep reading 2 pages, and worse if readers stick it out still would not understand the ‘literature’ and multi-layered confusing theory styles and Oxford English Dictionary seems not enough, the readers have to get French, Italian, German, and Chinese Dictionaries would help them to complete the 500 pages journey that should end in really 50-100 pages, literally.
Literature is about Quality not Quantity in pages and units. One great song or a short poem beats 800 pages fancy words novel every time! Poets respect readers time.
Poetry exists in many forms, in novel, in lyrical essay (prose), in strict regulated verse, in haiku, epic, or even non-grammatical hodgepodge, exp: Writing by Marguerite Duras.
Also I bet many poets listen to Bob more than they read their own poems because good things last and pass under daily scrutiny.
I am happy Bob is awarded by Nobel, it’s been long time coming for other lyrical poets too since ancient time.
Two Bob Dylan’s song lyrics to state Bob is awesome poet. (also, be practical, go to Barnesnoble this weekend, leaf thru literature magazines, include the New Yorker and Poetry Mag, see if there are two better touching poems than the following, plus Bob's poems Sing)
Blind Willie McTell (Favorite Bob's Song)
Well, I heard that hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
Hear that undertaker’s bell
Nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
---
How many roads
must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas
must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times
must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
Yes, and how many years
can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years
can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times
can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
Yes, and how many times
must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears
must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths
will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
---
Favorite Bob Song List:
Blind Willie McTell
Blowin in the Wind
One More Cup of Coffee
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
A Hard Rain's, a Hard Rain Gonna Fall
Sara
She Belongs to Me
Like a Rolling Stone
Things Have Changed
