A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall-- Bob Dylan
Artist are one of the most important and influential
way of spreading activist ideas, The song was wrote by on 1962 by Bob Dylan and
it is one of the most idiosyncratic protest
songs ever written.
It is a complex and powerful song built upon the
question-and- answer refrain pattern of the traditional British ballad “Lord
Randall” (Wikipedia). The song reflects the issue of the discovery of Soviet
missiles on the island of Cuba, “I saw
ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken. I saw guns and sharp swords
in the hands of young”, He is trying to
get the listener, young American to think of the issue and to aware people with
the social issues. I met a young child
beside a dead pony I met a white man who walked a black dog I met a young woman
whose body was burning I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow. This part
of the song remind me of the “Death of Alan Kurdi”, the tragedy of a three
years old Syrian boy who was found on the Mediterranean beach. Although many
year passed, this song from the 60s still has a special place in the modern
society, the imagery of injustice, pollution, war and suffering created by Bob
Dylan are very strong, and it still exist now, all around us, although we might
think that we are living in peaceful world, but there are many people and country
that is facing life threatening tragic everyday. As an artist, it is our job to
notice the issues on the planet we live in and always stay activate and aware
of the issues in the world.
