 Complete the following phrase:  Tears of Rage is one of the most widely acclaimed songs from The Basement Tapes. Gill likens it to King Lears soliloquy on the blasted heath in Shakespeares tragedy: Wracked with bitterness and regret, its narrator reflects upon promises broken and truths ignored, on how greed has poisoned the well of best intentions, and how even daughters can deny their fathers wishes. He suggests that Dylan is linking the anguish of Lears soliloquy to the divisions in American society apparent in 1967, as the Vietnam War escalated: In its narrowest and most contemporaneous interpretation, the song could be the first to register the pain of betrayal felt by many of Americas Vietnam war veterans. ... In a wider interpretation it harks back to what anti-war protesters and critics of American materialism in general felt was a more fundamental betrayal of the 