This year's Nobel Prize for Literature to legendary rock songwriter musician Bob Dylan is interesting. It also seems to have set a new trend. Though I have used good popsongs in teaching English language, Physics and other subjects I never expected that pop music would be placed on the same pedestal as novels, poems and plays.
(I remember my students enjoying a Robert Frost poem that I always used whenever I explained Millikan's oil drop experiment to determine the specific charge of an electron).
Getting back to Bob Dylan, who wouldn't like his "Blowing in the wind", "Like a rolling stone" or "Mr Tambourine man"? His simple music will keep ringing in the ears of folk and rock music fans for many years to come.
I remember having read many years back that Bob Dylan's writing was influenced by the works of Dylan Thomas, an American poet.
