After taking respite in the comfort of my home and with family, I have managed to get back into the working mind frame and sat and approached the next part of my end of year independent project for university. I decided, as my independent project, to construct a critical essay on the works of Bob Dylan, entitled 'Politics and Poetry'. Needless to say, a lot of background research has been required of me each time I sit and attempt to analyse any of his protest songs.
Today I started to look at 'Only a Pawn in Their Game', a song Dylan wrote about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. I discovered that he performed this song on the 1963 March on Washington, where later Martin Luther King delivered his 'I have a dream' speech. This urged me to sit and watch the speech in it's entirety, which I'd never done before. No matter how many times I hear this it never ceases to send goose pimples all over my body and tears to my eyes. An inspirational man, epically inspirational words.
