Analysis of poems
Poem one (The times they are a changing)
Bob Dylan had a different style to most of his songs. In his civil rights songs he obviously writes about civil rights issues affecting mainly America of that time. In this songs the thing he is mainly singing/ protesting about is civil rights. He said in an interview that he wanted to make an anthem of change for civil rights. Some different ideas presented in the poem would include: changing times, unity of people and asking for change.
With most of his poems he has roughly 8-9 words in each verse.
This appears in his civil rights songs such as
In the poem/ song, ‘The Times They Are a Changin’ one of the main, obvious attributes or meanings/reference is the changing times