Song Analysis-Imagine, John Lennon
Imagine-John Lennon
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today… Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Subject
– About living peacefully
-psychological phenomenon
Narrator
-John Lennon
-He is speaking to society
-Too much war in the world
Diction
-abstract
-free of cliches
Tone
-imaginative
-imagine, dreamer
-tone remains static
Rythme
-stanza length 6
-end rhyme
-closed
Literary devices
-rhyme
-hyperbole?
-not many literary devices
-imagine is the best title because it is simple and inspiring
Values of the poem
-he speaks from experience when he says to join him
-it is intensely felt by the reader that is why this is the most inspiring
-imaginative
-imagine, dreamer
-tone remains static
Rythme
-stanza length 6
-end rhyme
-closed
Literary devices
-rhyme
-hyperbole?
-not many literary devices
-imagine is the best title because it is simple and inspiring
Values of the poem
-he speaks from experience when he says to join him
-it is intensely felt by the reader that is why this is the most inspiring