Dylan’s message can be seen through his usage of repetition of the personal pronoun ‘You.” The song begins with this poetic device, “You that build all the guns/death planes/bombs.” Dylan begins his song with these lines, in order to introduce who the villains are. With the use of the word “You,” Dylan is essentially pointing fingers. He is placing the blame of the war to all those who participate in the military industrial complex despite knowing their individual involvement and hard work is being used to hurt others. “You put a gun in my hand/And you hide from my eyes/And you turn and run farther/When the fast bullets fly.” In the second stanza, Dylan continues his use of repetition to show that for him the villains are people who not only make the means of war but they hide from taking responsibility of their actions. The element of hidden truth shows that the song is not directed solely at political leaders and warfare that stemmed from current events that served to bring the song into fruition. But it is actually deeper than that, Dylan is condemning the system that allows for this underlying motivation of these types of parasites that treat injustice as their business and profit directly from it occurring. Another poetic device in …show more content…
“You hide in your mansion’/As young people’s blood/Flows out of their bodies/And is buried in the mud.” Dylan’s descriptive language paints a picture in the mind of the listener or reader illustrating the severe consequences that greed can bring. His song suggests that there are people choosing to eliminate lives so that they can live lavishly. And this is the injustice, Dylan aims to combat: capitalism. The powerful imagery in the lyrics serves to elucidate the disgust Dylan feels for these “war profiteers,” who have forced millions of men to fight a war resulting in unnecessary, traumatic bloodshed in order to increase their own