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Originally Posted by Steve Mangan
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Other words we find here from his vocabulary of symbols are 'O' and 'wax':
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In reference to the title the word 'fellows' is another word from Dylan's stock vocabulary to which he attached particularly meaning and by which he commonly referenced doubles/halves - for example the fellows maybe the two halves of our own production - our parents for example, or our own inner self/ghost/soul/spirit/shadow. For example:
The fellow halves that, cloven as they swivel
On casting tides, are tangled in the shells,
Bearding the unborn devil,
And
Half fo the fellow father as he doubles
His sea-sucked Adam in the hollow hulk,
Half of the fellow mother as she dabbles
Tomorrow's diver in her horny milk,
Bisected shadows on the thunder's bone
Bolt for the salt unborn.
The fellow half was frozen as it bubbled
Corrosive spring out of the iceberg's crop,
The fellow seed and shadow as it babbled
The swing of milk was tufted in the pap,
For half of love was planted in the lost,
And unplanted ghost.
Such fellow halves we may perhaps see referenced in opposites in the body of the poem such as
fortune's bone and the
flask of blood; and the
periscope upright from the
grave. Basically an extended list of birth/death, womb/tomb metaphors. His combination of nouns with unusual adjectives may be viewed in a similar fashion as part of his techniques for combining and either uniting or negating contrasting images - they too partake in an extended metaphor of the 'fellowed.'