In this excerpt from section xviii of the way to rainy mountain, the author describes his relationship to the space around him. you could see far and wide even at night, by the light of the moon; there was nothing to stand in your way. and when the season turned and it was necessary to move back into the house, there was a sense of confinement and depression for a time. what does this description convey about the author? he finds mystical power in the nighttime sky. he connects the emotion of the people to the condition of the land and seasons. he knows that with the change of seasons the end of the kiowa culture is looming. he faces depression when he has to be in large spaces alone.

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.”