Dylan’s Blowin’ In the Wind was a very powerful song. The song portrayed the many events of the time through metaphors, not by putting them right in front of you. It portrays the hardships of one group and by doing so, portrays another group and their actions of turning a blind eye. To me the song really asks the question “how long?”. How long can these things go on. Dylan knew that those events and the way that things were at the time couldn’t last because of their nature. I believe that by the way Dylan is presenting these questions he is really telling the listener exactly that, that they wouldn’t last.
Bob Dylan’s Only A Pawn in Their Game is a song about the assassination of Medgar Evers who was a civil rights activist in Mississippi. This song, though about a specific event, really touches on the deeply seeded beliefs and hate of whites in the south at the time. The song tells how the killer in this case is “only a pawn in their game”. How the hate pounded into this person is to blame for the event and that these events are used in the advancement of politicians in the South at the time.
Both of the songs by Dylan are very powerful in the messages they tell. In Blowin’ In the Wind Dylan uses metaphors to tell of the events. In Only A Pawn In Their Game Dylan tells a specific story and touches on a specific subject. Both songs are a protest to the long exercised actions of the times and can both be applied for current and future events.
