Study On The Diversity Of Bob Dylan's Poetry

Since Bob Dylan has received his Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016,the public shifted attention from his music to his lyrics.In a long time,Dylan's lyrics has been considered as a deep reflection of American society in the late20^thcentury from a“public voice”,and aroused the strong emotional resonance of American public.But if the radical part is left out of his poetry,the artistic connotation is actually multiple and profound.Dylan not only has expressed his concerns about the times and society in poetry,but also has combined of multi-elements such as religion,painting and music,so that his poems contain profound aesthetic value.First of all,the religious elements in Bob Dylan's poetry reflect the great influence of Christianity of his creation,he exposed wars and social injustice to convey his views of sins,and convey the vies of redemption in the poems of praising the virtues,urging people to seek salvation in the lead of Jesus Christ,and eliminate chaos of the world and emptiness of people.Dylan's religious consciousness has laid ideological foundation for the timeless philosophy and profound artistic conception in his poetry,and prompted him to purse artistic beliefs as well as looking for spiritual home.Second,Dylan's folk poetry characterized the tradition of Poetry-Music integration.As a songwriter,Dylan precedes many singer and songwriters of his contemporary,combines the ancient oral literature art and modern music,gives full play to the role of oral tradition as the prototype of human arts.Dylan used many rhetorical ways such as rhyme and repetition to make the poetry like pleasant music,and constructed the undulating rhythms of emotions and feeling inside the poetry,created the musical aesthetic from both internal essence and external expression.At last,the unity of Dylan's poetry and paintings shows both similarities in content and form.His poetry has strong human feelings,focus on the simple reality of the social visage,and shows strong sense of tableau,reflects the same ideas of his paintings either it is in dynamic performance or static images to create a picture.Dylan also absorbs the color and line elements in the paintings,uses the language of color and spatial position to construct the sense of poetry,while the poetry itself has a aesthetic design.With the combination of content and form,Dylan's poetry owes strong sense of images,obtains the sublimation in the term of aesthetic conception.Allinall,BobDylan'spoetryisnotasimple“declarationof protest”,but also shows a high aesthetic level in the term of artistic value.Dylan actively explores the similarities between poetry and other artistic forms both in content and form,and practised in his own poetry works,so that his poetry reveals multi-elements.