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Friday, May 20, 2005
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
Bob Dylan
Unreleased Blood On The Tapes Take
1974
YOU'RE A BIG GIRL NOW
Bob Dylan
Unreleased BOTTapes Take
1974
IDIOT WIND
Bob Dylan
Unreleased BOTTapes Take
1974
[Buy Blood On The Tracks]
My friend Tom used to teach at Newcomer's - a Queens magnet school for the children of recent immigrants, where the kids called him "Mr. Moore." He told me this story, about using Bob Dylan's You're A Big Girl Now to teach his students about similes:
I'm going out of my mind
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we've been apart
"What did Dylan mean?" Mr. Moore asked."Something pulls your heart out, and the hole fills with pain" a girl said. "When you turn a corkscrew, you start and stop," another girl said. "That's how it is when you leave someone you love." A small boy spoke up: "The corkscrew is not pulling his heart," he said. "It is squeezing his heart. His heart is squeezed inside the corkscrew, and it bleeds."
(Read Tom's journal.)
posted by Alex
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