9. in reflecting on some of the more difficult moral choices made by the characters laura's decision to sleep with jamie, ronsel's decision to abandon resl and return to america, jamie's choice during the lynching scene, florence's and jamie's separate decisions to murder pappy—what would you have done in those same situations? is it even possible to know? are there some moral positions that are absolute, or should we take into account things like time and place when making judgments?

Dylan is of course enormously influential. springsteen, who referred to him as “the father of my country” in his new born to run memoir, is one of many who were once known as “new dylans.” every singer-songwriter with a personal story to tell owes him a debt, and hearing the above lines read or sung aloud, with their knack for internal rhyme, call up inevitable parallels to the dense playful language of rap. –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca which piece of evidence supports the claim that dylan’s rock lyrics are like poetry? he is enormously influential. his lyrics feature internal rhyme. singer-songwriters owe him a debt. someone called him “the father of my country.”