IMAGINE – JOHN LENNON

The object of the present work is to discuss and analyze the song “Imagine” of John Lennon by lens of view.

Just considering the title “Imagine”, the intelligent reader understands that the song would talk about a dream of the singer.

Just considering the structure of the song there are: two verse where the singer talks about a single dream, and a refrain that, also, concludes the song, in the refrain the singer addresses with the object pronoun “you” to someone, maybe his wife.

The expression in the first line “Imagine there's no heaven” refers to a world where there isn’t a fear of judgment. Then, the expression “Living for today” underlines that the singer wants that the people living the present, without thinking about the past or the future.

In the next lines there is a pacifist intent, in fact, without religion, without countries and without border, violence and wars don’t exist.

It follows that with the exhortation to unite and to become as one with the expression “I hope someday you'll join us / And the world will be as one”.

In conclusion, the last dream of the singer is a world without avidity and where people possess nothing.

When the song starts, in the videoclip, there are two persons among which John Lennon. They walk on a road, embraced, without briskness, at the end of the street there is a white light. They are directed to a house. Little by little the persons move close to the house’s door, the lights become more and more bright. Into this house the windows are close, there is nothing except a piano. While, John Lennon is singing, the lady are opening all windows, symbolized hope. In conclusion the lady sits down near John. The color that prevails in the videoclip are black at the beginning of the video perhaps because the singer wants to represent the moment before he had dreamed and the color white at the end because he wants to represent the moment when they are into the dream, where there isn’t countries or paradise.

The song represents a hymn of peace and of fraternity between people.