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Rhetoric of protest songs

atmosphere and experiences of the soldier in Vietnam. "My blue-eyed son" symbolizes the United States soldiers in Vietnam. Each verse appears to contain a correlation to events over seas. "I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken," this coincides with the numerous failed peace talks. "I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children," most of the men fighting were very young, sixty-one percent of the men killed were twenty-one or younger (War Information and Statistics). "I heard the sound of thunder, it roared out a warnin" This directly refers to the massive amount of bombs being dropped. During the entire war, the United States dropped nearly eight million tons of bombs, four times the tonnage dropped during all of World War II. It is the largest display of firepower in the history of warfare (War Information and Statistics). The section of the song in which he sings of "who did you meet" covers the different plights the troops faced. The young innocent children that died, the racial tension between soldiers, missing their families and being consumed by hatred because of the death they were surrounded by. "Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters" vividly images the use of Napalm, a petroleum based anti-personnel bomb that showers hundreds of explosive pellets upon impact (War Information and Statistics). The chorus of the song, "And its a hard rains a-gonna fall" is interpreted by the many men that fell to the war and lost their lives. A total of 58,202 men lost their lives in Vietnam. The most significant metaphorical phrase in this piece of rhetoric is contained in the last two verses of the song. "Then Ill stand on the ocean until I start sinkin, But Ill know my song well before I start singin" He is telling the story of all the soldiers who understand they were going to loose their lives.Dylan formed the song into the time sequence of the war. First he questions where they coul...

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