A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall- Stasis Theory

          "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" was written during the Cold War, specifically during the Vietnam War, when the threat of nuclear war hung over everyone's heads.  A month later, the Cuban Missile Crisis began, and the threat to America became even larger.  Urbanization was becoming the new trend and pollution went unchecked.  Dylan wrote this song to protest the unnecessary wars and the society America had become.  He believed America was going in a downward spiral and would be the cause of it's own downfall.  "Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters" could refer literally to the pollution happening during the 60s and to America causing it's own demise.  Dylan wanted America to change for the better and for the warring to end.  He thought the violence and hatred needed to come to an end and for America to clean up it's act.