Let's Make A Sweeping Statement

It's difficult to find anything new to post about Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, simply an essential album. I'll try to find a few words to do it justice though. Part blues rock album with the band including Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper and songs like Tombstone Blues, From a Buick 6, Ballad Of a Thin Man and even the title track having basic blues structures but with Dylan's inimitable lyric gifts conjuring up strange parallel universes. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry has a country bluesish lilt and there are the acid put downs of Queen Jane Approximately and the ubiquitous Like a Rolling Stone. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues inhabits that Tex Mex border world Dylan sometimes strays towards for a sense of exotica and the stranger out of his element and through all these tracks the band provide sure footed and sensitive accompaniment. But the album ends with Dylan more or less on his own and the narrative tour de force that is the greatest song ever written, Desolation Row. What is it about ? Everyone witll have their own personal interpetation which is the power of the thing. I just know that it leaves me shatered each time I hear it and it can only be the closing track on the album since nothing could successfully follow it. What sort of world is conjured up for you ?