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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis | | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis: Encyclopedia II - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis | | The ballad is made up of five considerable stanzas of metaphor and imagery.
The song was written at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the bleakness of the lyrics reflects the worried mood of the time. However, the meaning behind the words has stayed relevant throughout the years as they seem to have a broader sweep in their descriptions of injustice, suffering and warfare.
Some have suggested that the refrain of the song refers to nuclear fallout, however Dylan himself refutes that this was a specific reference:
"It's not atomic rain, it's not fallout rain... I ...
See also:A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Live performance, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Covers | | | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Covers, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Live performance | | |
| | | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall: Encyclopedia II - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Analysis
The ballad is made up of five considerable stanzas of metaphor and imagery.
The song was written at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the bleakness of the lyrics reflects the worried mood of the time. However, the meaning behind the words has stayed relevant throughout the years as they seem to have a broader sweep in their descriptions of injustice, suffering and warfare.
Some have suggested that the refrain of the song refers to nuclear fallout, however Dylan himself refutes that this was a specific reference:
"It's not atomic rain, it's not fallout rain... I [just] mean some sort of end that's just got to happen"
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