Vietnam Tunes From Cory

One song in particular seems to be how I would envision actually being in war. Bob Dylan's song A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall does not necessarily go into depth on the gory details of how war would be imagined, yet it does give weary perspective. I particualrly enjoyed the description of how long the journey is. When he describes it as "six crooked highways", "seven sad forests" and a "dozen dead oceans" one feels the full extent of the not only the long journey through foreign territory, but the emotional trek. I enjoyed the metaphor of this transformation through the description of an innocent blue eyed boy. The innocence is further explained in later lyrics when he compares a new born having to deal with wild wolves. Bob chooses to use this to symbolize how a young soldier is unprepared physically and emotionally to enter a world of unfamiliar violence. Me gusta este cantante mucho. Gracias Professor