Re: Dylan no poet


M. Rick wrote:
By the time someone like Dylan rolled onto the scene--and even way before--a rather tall wall stood between song and poetry.


Only inside the walls of academia, which had just about zero interest
in popular songs. For the rest of the world, poetry was always a part
of songwriting. The rhyming lines are the most obvious commonality.

Well, okay. It's kinda hard to argue with this point.

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