Friday, September 7, 2012

Imitation #2 (1960s) Bob Dylan "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"


It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

"Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one

That can do what's never been done

That can win what's never been won

Meantime life outside goes on

All around you
You loose yourself, you reappear

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

Alone you stand without nobody near
 
When a trembling distant voice, unclear

Startles your sleeping ears to hear

That somebody thinks

They really found you."

I chose to write about a song by Bob Dylan, called "It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)". This song was written in the 1960s, which was when the hippie generation was taking place and the Vietnam War was in forefront of everyone's minds. The first verse talks about how propaganda has made it seem that the people of America can do anything, but as these people are thinking about what they can do life still goes on around them. The second verse talks about people who lost themselves discovered themselves again but now they have no one around them, they lost no only themselves but what they had. I would say this song is a confession. Dylan is giving his own opinions on what he sees during the 1960s. He is talking to the people of America who were living during these times of war and hippie movement. The first verse has a rhyme scheme of ABBBBA, and the second verse has a rhyme scheme of CCCCCDE. The last two words in each verse rhyme in most of the song. This rhyming of the last words in each verse happens through most of the song. The way Bob Dylan rhymes in this song is amazing, it really sounds like a rap song, even though he is playing guitar and harmonica. This song is about seven minutes long and he rhymes for all of those minutes. The use of rhyme, the stories and meaning is the overpowering techniques in this song.



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