Now meet thy fate, incens'd belinda cry'd, and drew a deadly bodkin from her side. (the same, his ancient personage to deck, her great great grandsire wore about his neck, in three seal-rings; which after, melted down, form'd a vast buckle for his widow's gown: her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, the bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, which long she wore, and now belinda wears.) these lines gently mock the epic convention of the arming of the epic hero the ancestry of the warrior the genealogy of the weapon the posing of the epic question

“dylan was a revolutionary,” bruce springsteen said in his 1988 speech inducting dylan into the rock and roll hall of fame. “the way that elvis freed your body, bob freed your mind.” early masterpieces such as “a hard rain’s a-gonna fall” and “visions of johanna” and “like a rolling stone” fueled a debate: are rock lyrics poetry? the answer must be yes, because on thursday, dylan was awarded the highest honor for a writer: the nobel prize in literature. the swedish academy, in making him the first american winner since novelist toni morrison in 1993, cited him for “having created new poetic expressions within the great american song tradition.” –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca what is the best summary of the author’s claim? rock lyrics can be like poetry. bob dylan was a revolutionary. musicians deserve nobel prizes. more americans deserve nobel prizes.