>The Nobel Prize committee announced on October 13, 2016, that it would be awarding Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". The award was not without controversy, and The New York Times reported: "Mr. Dylan, 75, is the first musician to win the award, and his selection on Thursday is perhaps the most radical choice in a history stretching back to 1901.
Did he deserve it?
No. None of the American writers who won it beyond the 60s deserved it. Louise Glück? Frick that shit.
what about for this?
That's a pop song, not literature. They give a Grammys for music already.
lyric poetry
You don’t even know what those words mean
>lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person
>It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also not equivalent to Ancient Greek lyric poetry, which was principally limited to song lyrics, or chanted verse. The term for both modern lyric poetry and modern song lyrics derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature, the Greek lyric, which was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on a stringed instrument known as a kithara, a seven-stringed lyre (hence "lyric").
Who are you quoting?
atleast post visions of johanna
There is no reason for Hideo Kojima not to win one now.
gamers are braindead, video is inherently an inferior artform due to its very nature of interactivity.
Nice b8
cope
yes
No one has ever read Dylan's lyrics for their own sake. It's not literature.
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>The New York Times reported: "Mr. Dylan, 75, is the first musician to win the award
Ooh, controversial. Did they apologise?
> Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child’s balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying
Yes. If you say no you got filtered.
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941). Other names: Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham (Hebrew name).
He's a christian now
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man
His enemies say he's on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully he just lives to survive
He's criticized and condemned for being alive
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He's wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn
He's always on trial for just being born
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it, and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he got no allies to really speak of
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one's command
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothing, they say. He just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits for feed
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still
Neighborhood bully.
>Not even posting the best lyrics from that album
You’re a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds
Manipulator of crowds, you’re a dream twister
You’re going to Sodom and Gomorrah
But what do you care? Ain’t nobody there would want to marry your sister
Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame
You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name
Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, woah, oh, Jokerman
Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy
The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers
In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed
Michelangelo indeed could’ve carved out your features
Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space
Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face
Based Jokerman enjoyer
>Well, the rifleman’s stalking the sick and the lame - Preacherman seeks the same, who’ll get there first is uncertain
Maybe my favourite line in Dylan’s catalogue
IQfy doesn't understand music. they barely understand literature
Name one song
no, his music sounds like adam sandler on the bagpipes. his rhymes are boring. he doesn't deserve the award.
>his rhymes are boring
ill let you know when we want input from a rap fan
what are you one of these 'POETRY DOESN'T NEED METRE, OR RHYME, OR THEMES, OR MOODS' homosexuals?
Leonard Cohen is the better israeli lyricist
The fact that we are expected to take the Nobel Prize seriously is one of the dumbest aspects of modern society. A bunch of moronic Swedish judges handing out awards to war criminals and mad scientists
Nobel prize for culture related things and "peace prize" is mega cringe
Yeah, I expect anyone actually sensible to know better than to put blind faith in any sort of award or prize. Nobels are the oscars of the humanities...nobody serious thinks of the latter as anything but a popularity contest, we have no reason to think of the former any different, either. Though an even better comparison for europeans would be the eurovision prize, which has been a laughing stock for decades.
And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow
he's good and old so he's also written plenty of duds, but he's very good
Tambourine man is goated
IQfy is a Farina board
Dylan tried his best, but he still have israelite in him.