the thing that most sets dylan apart from cohen was that his involvement in the political predicament of the time became his main image in the music scene for a long time. he was exposed less subtly because of the nature of the time and that became his "role". some people take that as a blow to his "poetic validity" but he used his skill as a wordsmith to honourable use. i know cohen wrote songs with a political flavour e.g. the future, but cohens poetry focuses on the whole, on the human plight
3:42 dylan wasn't a poet?! "I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet." dylan was as much as a poet as cohen was! his lyrics CAN be read as poetry without music, because thats what they essentially were - poetry!
That is TOO FUNNY I was just thinking {whilst listning to some OLDER Leonard... I was thinking to myself, hmmm Dylan & Cohen have a few similarities, when it comes to songwriting and lyric formulationing.. lol, I really don't believe neither one was influenced by the other.
the last guy said it right
lelobest 1 day ago
the thing that most sets dylan apart from cohen was that his involvement in the political predicament of the time became his main image in the music scene for a long time. he was exposed less subtly because of the nature of the time and that became his "role". some people take that as a blow to his "poetic validity" but he used his skill as a wordsmith to honourable use. i know cohen wrote songs with a political flavour e.g. the future, but cohens poetry focuses on the whole, on the human plight
sarahlhanna 1 month ago
3:42 dylan wasn't a poet?! "I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet." dylan was as much as a poet as cohen was! his lyrics CAN be read as poetry without music, because thats what they essentially were - poetry!
sarahlhanna 1 month ago
That is TOO FUNNY I was just thinking {whilst listning to some OLDER Leonard... I was thinking to myself, hmmm Dylan & Cohen have a few similarities, when it comes to songwriting and lyric formulationing.. lol, I really don't believe neither one was influenced by the other.
JenLynnBucci83 2 months ago