The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107928 Message #2242749
Posted By: John Hardly
23-Jan-08 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: Diamonds and Rust
Subject: RE: Diamonds and Rust
wow.
A thirty post thread on the subject of whether or not cufflinks would have been an appropriate gift for Dylan...
...and not one mention of the possibility (dare I say "probability"?) that the word "cufflink" was not a reference to any actual material gift given, but rather, a word that fit the meter and somewhat fit the rhyme ("cufflinks" rhymes with "something") as best Baez could.
Instead, the assumption is that it was a literal gift.
God spare me your analysis of Strawberry Fields Forever. :^)