A Study On The Romantic Qualities Of Bob Dylan's Lyrics

Bob Dylan is the most famous music cultural celebrity,performer and rock singer in the 20 th century in the United States.He is also an outstanding lyricist and master of language.He has written more than 450 original songs in his life,The lyrics have a wide range of themes,showing great concern for the social problems and the civil rights movement of the 1960 s.In addition,these lyrics accurately capture the spirit of the times and have a poetic language.These lyrics enabled Dylan to win a number of literary awards,The most notable feature was that he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.Dylan has received extensive attention from scholars both at home and abroad,and has caused many related literary Discussions and controversies.By perusing Bob Dylan's lyrics collection,we find that Dylan's lyrics are a mixture of romanticism and modernism and show a distinctly romantic quality,This romantic quality is the continuation and development of the traditional romanticism in the 20 th century.Its lyrics reflect this continuation and development from the three levels of rebelling against reality,pursuing self-nature,seeking ideals and salvation.Based on the above knowledge and inspiration,this article places Dylan's lyric works under the American social background of the 1960 s,and focuses on the romantic features of Bob Dylan's lyrics and the significance of romantic lyrics.The article is divided into four parts to explore the above issues:The first part discusses the romantic qualities of Dylan's lyrics show resistance against reality.Dylan continued and developed the spiritual core of the romantic rebellion.His lyrics are more extreme and bold in his personal confrontation with the society and revealing the plight of modern people.First of all,analyze the rebellious meaning of Dylan's lyrics and solve the problem of “What is the object of rebellion in lyrics? ” Dylan's lyrics rebelled against the unfair political and cultural order and mainstream values of all oppressors in American society;Secondly,to explore how Dylan's lyrics are against reality,that is to say,with literature as the theme: the theme of the periphery,the theme of death,and the theme of anti-heroes.The author exposes various social issues and dark injustice through these three literary themes.To express their resistance to the US rights structure and mainstream society.Finally,the paper analyzes the staged changes in the resistance of Dylan's lyrics and the strength of critical reality.The second part discusses Dylan's lyrics showing a publicity of his own nature.Dylan continued the idea that the early romanticism was rooted in nature and pushed this idea to the extreme.His lyrics turned to a more hidden and complex inner world.Through writing the subject's sensible life will and unconscious impulse,he showed himself nature.This chapter analyzes Dylan's lyrics from three parts.The author boldly advocates his own nature by shaping a series of unrestrained self-images,singing vagrancy and seeking spiritual freedom,pursuing the true expression of emotions and free expression of emotions.The third chapter mainly discusses Dylan's lyrics' pursuit of ideals.Dylan inherited and developed the tradition of romantic pursuit of subjective ideals,and its lyrics have the function of modernist artistic secular salvation.Dylan constructed and expressed in his lyrics his own idealistic illusion: First,in the lyrics,he painted an ideal social picture full of light,freedom,truth,and happiness in the “gate of the Garden of Eden.” Second,he also dreams of having a "habitat" that belongs to the soul,through the exploration of the dream world beyond reality,the author has opened up a generation of people to escape the dilemma of modern society,to seek for hope and to rebuild the spiritual home.The fourth part mainly summarizes the meaning of Dylan's romantic lyrics.First of all,Dylan's romantic quality lyrics have profound ideological value: The lyric's high concern for the human dilemmas and spiritual conditions of modern American society reflects the strong sense of social responsibility of intellectuals.This not only became a valuable legacy of later literature,but also affected a large number of young people;Dylan's lyrics also reflected the intellectuals' efforts to save themselves and save the society.Secondly,Dylan's romantic lyrics have positive significance for the development of later literature: it inspires and guides literary innovation,boldly combines new media and new technologies,and creates new literary forms that suit social development and human needs.