Essays on Changin

Literature

Literature

This is a ballad of the love between two people who never get the opportunity to actualize their relationship. Its theme is death both at a literal and symbolic level. Death is used as a metaphor of the demise of the stillborn romance between the soldier and Barbara Allen. The wall and the ringing death-bells epitomize the end of an unborn romance (Anon, 27).

“Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike

This poem is describes a former basketball player who becomes a petty mechanic after the end of his career because he lacks other useful skills (Updike, 19). The theme of the poem is the vanity of success especially when ...

The 2009 superhero film Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder, takes place in an alternate version of 1985 in which Nixon has been elected a third term, superheroes have been banned from operating without the consent of the United States government, and the world is on the brink of nuclear destruction. In order to set up this world, and convey a lot of information about the politics and characters of the time, Snyder and co. created a nearly 6-minute long title sequence to the tune of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" that tells us everything we need to know about the ...

Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Legal Alien by Pat Mora W. H. Auden explained poetry as “ a language which tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be said.” “The Times They are a Changin'” by Bob Dylan, “Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora are all speaking of changing worlds, however the emotional context is far different. In “The Times They are a Changin'” Bob Dylan is telling parents to get out of the way in world where “Your old road is rapidly agin’.” . Conversely, Dylan Thomas is begging his father not ...