Bob Dylan

Tangled up in blue. How many times can Mr. Dylan repeat this phrase in his wonderful song ? This song screams the story of a young man making his way through a world full of blue. Blue is the one color that is best suited for troubling times. There is even an entire genre of music dedicated to this melancholy color and Bob Dylan gives the reader a first hand look at what it's like to truly be blue. He starts off the song about a love he had early in his life. He wanted to marry even though there isn't much family support due to the economic status of his parents. The marriage never went through and the young man went off for the east coast. He met another woman who he helped out of a situation and the two went out west where they eventually split up saying they'd meet again one day. He tells of the young man getting a job as a cook and he eventually worked his way down to New Orleans where he worked on a fishing boat but he could never forget about his old love. While at a topless bar the young man sees his love working and the two began talking and eventually went back to her place. they discussed some poems in a book that she had in her house and they connected the poetry to their lives. He ended up living with a couple that went into a economic slum and they eventually had to sell most of their possessions. So the young lad had to do what hes always done. Keep on keep'n on. He returns home to see the people he once new and all the different proffessions that they all have, but after all the years he is still doing to same thing. Traveling all tangled up in blue.

Frosty

I decided to respond to Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night." The poem uses end ryhme but the last line of the poem doesnt follow the ryhme scheme. There is an extended metaphor to describe the wind when he is walking. "...an interrupted cry came over houses from another street, but not to call me back or say goodbye..." There is also alliteration during the poem. Frost consistantly uses the phrase "I have" to start off many of the lines in the poem. The speaker of the poem is the author himself describing his late night walks on city streets. There is also great imagery in the poem. It makes me look back to my own late night walks on city streets.

So I will give my best shot at "analyzing" the poem, "I, being born a woman and distressed." I being a testosterone producing, hairy chested, man of a man would not typically jump on a poem written about a woman, by a woman. My initial reading of this poem left me with thoughts of previous relationships with certain women I've met over the years, so I will give it a go. The poem seems to be about the erotic whims of a woman kept quiet due to the social order of the 1920's. I can't decide if the woman is talking about an encounter with the man she is admiring or if it is merely her imagination. The author seems to want to break out of her decorum and indulge her sensuality. The rapper Ludacris puts it best by saying "A lady on the street, but a freak in the bed." The end of the poem leads me to believe that the woman is merely infatuated by the physical aspects of temptor and would only like to procure more palpable interests.

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