![]() ![]() It is worth noting that Poe’s poem itself includes the word « tempest » twice, and the song « Tempest » mourns the Titanic’s dead in a lament – « Sixteen hundred had gone to rest / The good, the bad, the rich, the poor / The loveliest and the best » – that recalls another poem by Poe, « The City in the Sea » (« Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best / Have gone to their eternal rest »). ![]() Haunting the album’s intertextual aisles is the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, whom I have discovered there no less than three times! The opening track, « Duquesne Whistle » (co-written by Dylan with Robert Hunter) has the phrase « at my chamber door », which, like the title track’s « nameless here for evermore », comes direct from Poe’s celebrated poem « The Raven » (as earlier referenced by Dylan in 1965’s « Love Minus Zero / No Limit »). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |