Bob Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"

Bob Dylan's song, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", was a very powerful song. Hattie Carroll was hit over the head by William Zanzinger, a white man, and she died from brain hemorrhage. The all white jury found Zanzinger guilty of manslaughter even though he was charged for murder, and only served six months. Dylan wrote songs about protesting and issues of the world, but usually never about current events, so when he wrote this song, it caught the attention of many people. Hattie  Carroll was a waitress and was hit on the head because Zanzinger felt she was taking too long to bring him his food. I think it was horrible that he was only charged with manslaughter and served six months because of an all white jury. It just goes to show how bad segregation and equal rights were during the 1960s. 

Edward Sander's Poem

Edward Sanders's poem about what happened in the summer of 1968 in Chicago was interesting. During the Democratic Convention, a good of protesters came to put on a peaceful protest and was viciously attack by the Chicago police. The poem was titled "Yeats in the Gas" and in our reader, the poem is set up in a non-traditional prose stance. I think Sanders made the poem like that to give the reader a disoriented feeling, and in a way maybe let the reader have a sense of how crazy things were during the attack. Regardless of how the poem is set up, just reading the words can give the reader chills. Once you read it, you try and visualize what you are reading and it is just scary to visualize something like that.