Imagine - John Lennon (analysis)

JOHN LENNON – IMAGINE

This song written by John Lennon in 1971 is inspired in the hope of a better world and to reach the world peace. The song makes us meditate about a better world without difference, people who respect each other different cultural views. Also this song asks for equality, and encourages people to stay together and join as one.

"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"

The first stanza stars saying “Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try And no Hell below us Above us only sky” it exhort us to live the present in a form of unity and peace imagine that it doesn’t exist any institution heavenly just a sky, saying that we should leave away the taboos like heaven and hell that are representations for the man because no one have seen if they exist or not, that’s why we should live the present.

At the moment that you believe that there is a heaven for the ones who act in a good manner and a hell for the wayward you are creating a division through religion and according to this stanza is what is wanted to be avoided. If there were not religions, there were no differences in that aspect and furthermore we would all live under the same sky.

"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

The second stanza says “Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no country

It isn't hard to do”. In this stanza say that we should live the present it means just the today, leaving all the worries about the future. Also it makes us think about a world without countries for taking away the existing boundaries that has led us to wars. There should be just one with equality for putting our forces together but here the author suppose that for people it is difficult to think about that because it says “it isn’t hard to do” due to we know that around the world exist many different cultures and territories and it would be a little hard if we try to think like that.

“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”

The chorus says “you may say I’m a dreamer” because it´s harder to think that the author’s dream would be reached since we live in a world that is filled of envy, division, wars and so many things that turn us into enemies, letting us to disseverance but what makes him to stand and not to give up in his attempt of making a better world is that there are few people that share the same idea, there are more dreamers that keep

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