" He crafts other materials into a version of what he wants to say."
my criticism of his song writing is that sometimes hit is not clear what he is trying to say, like most song writers he has some poor efforts as well as some good ones. in my opinion some of his songs are deliberately unclear in what they are trying to say.
Dylan would probably say "man ,you have to find the neaning yourself", what a clever cop out.
In the footsteps of James Joyce