![]() Unimaginable lights sounds like a forgotten verse from Tambourine Man and these two selections from Rimbaud are what I would guess Dylan had read in the run up to writing Tambourine Man.ĭylan was, by all reports, doing what many creative people do, at the time, experiencing the new in order to stimulate the creativity. The swaying motion on the bank of the river falls, And now, all these years later I think, yes, ok. ![]() I have listened to Mr Tambourine Man too many times, and at the same time tried to see what Dylan saw in Rimbaud’s poetry that made him want to divert his creative attention to the lad. We have all known the terror of his concession and ours: delight in our health, power of our faculties, selfish affection and passion for him,-he who loves us because his life is infinity… (Rimbaud: Genie) He is love, perfect and reinvented measure, miraculous, unforeseen reason, and eternity: machine loved for its qualities of fate. He is affection and future, the strength and love which we, erect in rage and boredom, see pass by in the sky of storms and the flags of ecstasy.
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