Question

Bring out the irony in the poem john brown by bob dylan

Answer 1

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Answer 2

At the beginning of the poem John Brown by Bob Dylan, the protagonist’s mother is very proud that her son, John Brown, is serving as a soldier for the country and is going to fight in a war at a foreign land.

She wants him to bring medals which she will proudly display in her home. At the end of the poem, we see John Brown returning in a pathetic condition questioning the need for war. When he hands her the medals that he had earned, his mother is ironically shocked about it as she finds the consequences for earning those medals as hard to digest.