Read the dedication page from the beginning of the book South!: To my comrades who fell in the white warfare of the south and on the red fields of France and Flanders.

The text about France refers to World War I, where some crew members later died in combat after returning from the Endurance expedition. Consider the information from the chapter you read. How does the dedication influence your understanding of this memoir’s purpose?

Dylan is of course enormously influential. springsteen, who referred to him as “the father of my country” in his new born to run memoir, is one of many who were once known as “new dylans.” every singer-songwriter with a personal story to tell owes him a debt, and hearing the above lines read or sung aloud, with their knack for internal rhyme, call up inevitable parallels to the dense playful language of rap. –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca which piece of evidence supports the claim that dylan’s rock lyrics are like poetry? he is enormously influential. his lyrics feature internal rhyme. singer-songwriters owe him a debt. someone called him “the father of my country.”