![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Almost like he’s America himself.”ĭylan being Dylan, this is is about as much explanation of his admiration for Whitman as a fan is likely to get. “ He had the most grand view of America,” Dylan shared in one 2009 interview with Rolling Stone. “ I paused momentarily imaging him printing away and singing the true song of his soul,” Bob Dylan wrote of Whitman, who passed away in 1892. ‘Chimes of Freedom’, ‘Desolation Row’ and ‘Cross The Green Mountain’ all make direct to Whitman’s transcendent poetry.ĭylan also recalled walking past the poet’s home on 7th Avenue after first moving to New York in 2011 book Chronicles – Volume 1. ![]() (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I. This is not the first time Dylan has alluded to Whitman in his work. The past and present wiltI have filld them, emptied them. In keeping with its name, Dylan’s new composition makes a number of literary namechecks in addition to discussing his fondness for “British bad boys” the Rolling Stones, pretty women, blue jeans and fast food.Īs Bob Dylan himself puts it, “ I’m a man of contradiction, I contain many moods. Bob Dylan has shared a new single titled ‘ I Contain Multitudes‘.įollowing the release of ‘Murder Most Foul’ on March 26, Dylan’s new number takes a line for American poet Walt Whitman‘s Song of Myself for its title. ![]()
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