Carrol Cox wrote: > A couple months ago I was listening desultorily to a song of Dylan's that's > always mildly irritated me because of its romanticizing revolution, "When > the Ship Comes In," ...<
I always thought that it was romanticizing the coming of the Messiah or something like that. The nature of poetry (or, if you will, "poetry") is that it can be interpreted in more than one way. Of course, during the 1960s, a lot of lefties did interpret the song as romanticizing revolution. > And it is quite obvious that there are no solutions to that [immigration] > 'problem' within the current framework, which she in effect reaffirmed at the > end of her presentation by proposing some radical reforms that would allow > more people in and eliminate various injustices in the system. < what, exactly, did she propose? (Open Borders seems unlikely to be achieved, but her program might be. It'd be good to know what it is ahead of time.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
