Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Song Assignment

In the song “Series of Dreams,” Bob Dylan uses the symbols and archetypes of running, falling, and climbing to express the theme of one enhancing themselves, changing, freedom, and one coming to reality. In the last stanza of the song Dylan writes of running which one can feel freedom by doing so. Anthony Stevens states that “This [running] can be associated with the same feelings of freedom as experienced in dreams of flying” in his book “Ariadne’s Clue” (Stevens 421). Falling represents a failure or when one comes to reality: “The fall is thus a mythic representation of humanity is transformation from hunter to farmer. As hunter-gatherers, we obeyed nature, we adapted to our ecological niche, we accepted our lot as the dependent’s of God, grateful for whatever it pleased him to provide.” (Stevens 419). Dylan expresses to his listeners that dreams can sometimes be unrealistic and that the action of falling can be what it takes to bring one back to earth. Ones dreams are a form of one trying to better their lives that they live “[…] ‘Climbing manouevre’ […]. Self-enhancement in the sociobiological sense relates to activation of only part of the archetypal endowment of the individual.” (Stevens 325). All of these archetypes support Bob Dylan in wanting to express what he thinks or feels towards goals and dreams in life.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Sentence assignment (Dream)


   Last night I had a scary dream about my neighbor. My neighbor looked sick like a zombie and was holding a chain saw, the chain saw was bloody as if it had been used to kill someone. He chased us around the house; it scared all of us living in the house. Fortunately for us the chain saw stopped working; I could feel the relief everyone felt in the dream, but then he pulled out a sharp object that he held behind his back out of our view, no one saw it so we attacked him. My neighbor was startled so he fell back and we were able to tie him up for the policemen.