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Re:The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan by stinkytaco on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:19PM (#12702392)
Tambourine Man definitely struck me in a similar way to Prufrock. In fact, I don't think songwriting gets the credit it really deserves. Dylan is verbose, but most great songwriting is better equated to a sonnet than Prufrock. And an album to a sonnet sequence.

One example I might offer on the same line as Prufrock is Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel. From "Save the Life of My Child" all the way to "At the Zoo" we follow a life (or many lives) and its roller coaster. "America" and "Hazy Shade of Winter" are particular favorites.

(as an aside, one of my favorite lyrics of all time is by Gordon Lightfoot in his excellent "Black Day in July" -

"And then the tanks go rolling in

To patch things up as best they can"

Talk about summing up so much in a few words.)

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