Well, I’m all for learning more about things one is interested in but over-analyzing a work of art can be deconstructive , by breaking it down into pieces and a

Well, I’m all for learning more about things one is interested in but over-analyzing a work of art can be deconstructive , by breaking it down into pieces and assigning to familiar categories or “buckets” you may lose the sight of the whole when looking at it as a sum of its parts. Kind of like when you focus on details but then just can’t zoom out to see the whole complex beast. Dylan was always against reduction of his works to e.g. civil rights causes and all that , like they teach in schools now, it’s a forced perspective, even if has some truth in it, it’s like putting his song in a cage in a “zoo” and sticking an easily digestible label on it for people too busy or too lazy to think for themselves. I’m all for unschooling.