Not Dark yet

[Sandrine]

Belgrade -06/06/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZvPqnGL-yQ&feature=related

[Landys ghost]

"Not Dark Yet" is arguably the most celebrated song on Time Out of Mind, and is perhaps the clearest example of John Keats' influence on Dylan's writing; it is even possible that "Not Dark Yet" was grown out of Keats' own work. In his book, Dylan's Visions of Sin, Christopher Ricks, a Warren Professor of the Humanities, draws parallels between "Not Dark Yet" and the Keats poem Ode to a Nightingale. Broken down line for line, "similar turns of phrase, figures of speech, [and] felicities of rhyming" can be found throughout "Not Dark Yet" and the Ode. Ricks also argues that "there is a strong affinity with Keats in the way that in the song night colours, darkens, the whole atmosphere while never being spoken of," just as Keats used winter to color and darken the atmosphere in another poem he wrote, To Autumn. "Dylan's refrain or burden is 'It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.' He bears it and bares it beautifully, with exquisite precision of voice, dry humour, and resilience, all these in the cause of fortitude at life's going to be brought to an end by death."

[Sandrine]

June 12 2010.
I don't know where.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05L0YTrODxk&feature=related

[Sandrine]

Beogradska Arena, 06.06.2010.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73crj-zLm4

[Kent Allard]

I love that song. Especially Tony Garnier's bass line

[Sandrine]

I saw after that the sound from Beogradska Arena is not very good, but well...

[Kent Allard]

The album version will always be the best for me. The emotion, heart-rending despair...