Most recently it was re-imagined by Hans Zimmer in the dazzling opening ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, watched by an audience of hundreds of millions. The sentiment is just as important now as when it was written and released 50 years ago.”įirst released in 1971, the iconic track has become one of the most recognized and popular global anthems for peace and has been covered by more than 200 other artists including Neil Young, Madonna, Elton John, and Lady Gaga. We are still together now and we still believe this. ‘Imagine’ embodied what we believed together at the time. In stanza 2 and 4, the line ends with the word you but the sentence continues to the next stanza.Yoko Ono Lennon said today “John would have loved this. The word You has been also repeated two times in the song. There is also a repetition of the third stanza.All the people have also been repeated a number of times.The word Imagine has been repeated a number of times in the poem. Though it is difficult to imagine so, yet we will someday find it to be the ultimate solution and will accept it and then we will be one. For him, religion, afterlife, countries, possessions, etc are the things that divide the people and make them fight with each other.Īs a dreamer, he asks the readers and the audience to imagine like him and see the world as he does. The song or the poem reflects the dream of a poet who wants to see the world problem-free. He says that though he is a dreamer, he will too join him someday and thus the world will be one. The fifth and the final stanza is again a chorus repeated by the poet. Universal brotherhood will prevail in the world and it will be shared by all the people equally. The poet thus asks us to think and imagine if we would give up the desire to possess the material things, there will be no fight, no class, no greed and thus no problem. This desire is, again a cause of problems faced by the people in the world. Materialistic desires lead to greed and thus capitalism, which again divides the society into classes i.e. In this stanza, the poet talks about material possessions. In the fourth stanza, the poet asks us to imagine that there would be no possessions and no need for greed or hunger and thus a brotherhood of man would exist where all the people will be sharing all the world. There will be unity among the people, and peace and prosperity will prevail. There are many others as well and someday we will also join him and that day the world will be one. However, according to him, he is not the only one to think like this. The poet says that the people may think that he is a dreamer.
And thus all the people living life in peace.
The poet thus wants us to imagine what if these two dividing forces were not here on the earth, then no person would die or kill others. The countries and the religions divide the people and also lead them to fight and kill each other. In the second stanza, the poet again asks us to imagine there’s no countries and no religion too and thus nothing to kill or die for. According to the poet, it isn’t hard to doi.e. In the third line, he asks us to Imagine that all the people living for today and above usare nothing but the only sky. The poet is asking the people to leave aside what has been prescribed and advised in their religions and beliefs and rather consider the world as the ultimate reality and live for today. Thus for Lennon, Heaven and Hell, or in other words life after death has no reality or proof. This idea is however different in all the religions and also the cause of a number of wars, crusades, enmity among the people and even the countries. The idea of heaven and hell is in almost all the major religions in the world like Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc. In the first stanza, the poet asks the readers and the audience to Imagine that there is no heavenand no hell and it’s easy if you try according to him. Lennon, in the song, imagines an ideal world without boundaries, religions, possessions, etc and in which the people will live happily. In stanza 1, the rhyme scheme is ABCBD, in stanza 2, it is ABCBB, and in stanza 4, it is ABCBD. There is no definite rhyme scheme in the song. The song has been divided into five stanzas in which the 3rd stanza is repeated at the end.
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