Read the excerpt from grendel. i was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we were, incredibly, related. i was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed—cows, horses, men—they left to rot or burn. i sacked all i could and tried to store it, but my mother would growl and make faces because of the stink. how is grendel characterized in this excerpt?

a. he is weak and easily disgusted by dead animals.
b. he is careful and respectful of animal life.
c. he is cruel and disobedient to his mother’s wishes.
d. he is considerate and mindful of the fighting men.

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.”