In what way is the setting characteristic of gothic fiction?
O The house is decaying.
The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor
knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched
into the recess and struck matches on the panels;
children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had
tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a
generation, no one had appeared to drive away these
random visitors or to repair their ravages.
-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Robert Louis Stevenson
The house is crowded.
O The house is ancient.
The house is pleasant.

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.”