Dylan: The Chains of the Sea December 19, 2012
Posted by cantueso in poetry, topical.trackback
Some non-native speaker of English might think that in English there are only two poets, Shakespeare and Dylan. All the rest is much too dated and restrained and polite or academic though, sometimes, there is also fun and nonsense, as for instance in Lewis Carrol.
Only two! But they are very great.
Then the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin’.
And the ship’s wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin’
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>>>> The complete text is at http://orad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dylan/whenship.html
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The photo was at www.bobdylan.com/#/node/6272 but the link does not seem valid anymore.
http://www.savoy-truffle.de/dylan/11.html
Dylan was born in Hinning, Minnesota.
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand
The hour that the ship comes in.
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they’re spoken
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.
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Dylan was a prophet for the 60′s
“Man gave names to all the animals” is my favourite. I heard it the first time in Paris, at some department store, where it actually made people stop and listen though probably nobody could understand the lyrics.