sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴡᴏʀᴋ: "ᴀ ʜᴀʀᴅ ʀᴀɪɴ's ᴀ ɢᴏɴɴᴀ ғᴀʟʟ" ʙʏ ʙᴏʙ ᴅʏʟᴀɴ

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               Analysis

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traditional ballad - lord Randall also features question

to son

Randall poisoned by true love, lists will, asks son what

he wants to leave to his true love, son answers 

"hell and fire"

5 stanzas, begin with question

litany of 5-7 things

couplet, repeats hard 4x

each stanza varies: where he has been, what he has 

seen, what he has heard, who he has met, future actions

world in state of crisis and neglect, giant necropolis

flood in biblical book of Genesis

composes in atmosphere of Cold war tensions

influences - French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud

derangement of senses - poem barbarian

sense of sight, hearing, synthesthesia

namesake - poet Dylan Thomas, died 1953 in NYC

1st public performance - hootenanny at Carnegie Hall

in NY on 9/22/1962

Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962

official song of 2009 Climate Change Conference