Literature 2 Bob Dylan

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Literature 1

Road Map

English literature - Lesson 2

Bob Dylan - 'Hey Mr. Tambourine Man'

• Your songs - literature?
• Context of Bob Dylan
• Language and vocabulary 
• Literary aspects
• Reader experience
  

Literature

• a cultural expression of value, 
• in this course, an English written, fictional work,
• which has more than just an entertainment value
• that makes people think about ideas in society/ the way the world works/ themselves.

Lewis Capaldi - Pointless

I bring her coffee in the morning                          She brings me inner peace

I take her out to fancy restaurants                       She takes the sadness out of me

I make her cards on her birthday                          She makes me a better man

I take her water when she's thirsty                      She takes me as I am

I love it when her mind wanders                           And she loves it when I stay at home

I know when she's lost and she knows when I feel alone

From all my airs and graces                                    To the little things I do

Everything is pointless without you                   Of all the dreams I'm chasing

There's only one I choose                                        Everything is pointless without you

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you are able to:

• analyse a poem;
• describe how form can influence content;
• describe the use of literary  tools in the work;
• recognise Bob Dylan's context;
• place Bob Dylan's work within the context of English literature;
• describe the content and meaning of the song discussed.

Bob Dylan

(1941 - now)

Context

• Robert Allen Zimmerman
• 24 May 1941, Duluth, Min. 
• father owned a furniture shop
• Singer-song writer New York
• Folk, folk-rock, rock
• renamed himself surname 'Dylan' after Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet
• 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s

US Context of the 1960s, 70s

Context

• music: Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Woody Guthrie
• Unequality of race
• Cold War
• Wars in Korea, Vietnam
• Flower power
  
• 1969 First person on the moon

Context

Bringing It All Back Home (1965) ft. 'Mr Tambourine Man' 

2016: Nobel Prize for Literature

 'new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'

In groups of 4

Take a look at the lyrics:

What stands out?

• vocabulary, perspective, tone, style
• Rhyme (end rhyme, internal rhyme, near rhyme)
• Metaphor, theme, motif

Take notes!

Language

Take a look at the lyrics:

What stands out?

vocabulary,

perspective, tone, style

Literary langauge 

Take a look at the lyrics:

Rhyme 

end rhyme, internal rhyme, near rhyme

half rhymes

internal rhymes:

rhyme with the last word of a line though, know; hand, sand, stand, branded; feet, meet, street’s. 

Literary langauge 

Take a look at the lyrics:

What stands out?

Metaphor, theme, motif

to jangle: make or cause to make a ringing metallic sound, typically a discordant one

to jingle: make or cause to make a light metallic ringing sound.

Reading dairy

Note your experiences and ideas of Bob Dylan's 

'Mr Tambourine Man'

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you are able to:

• analyse a poem;
• describe the use of literary  tools in the work;
• recognise Bob Dylan's context;
• place Bob Dylan's work within the context of English literature;
• describe the content and meaning of the song discussed.

Homework

Read through the theory we have discussed so far on LessonUp.

I have shared the LessonUp slides with you, including one with a number of definitions.