In today’s world where everything seems to be falling apart through things that we cannot control like the weather for example, there are other catastrophic things like wars and suffering inflicted on people because of different believes, different points of views and well unfortunately just simply for being different. It’s very sad to see how the world is bringing itself to an end because humans beings are not able to see past their own personal agendas. The song “Imagine” by John Lennon is a song whose persuasive message can promote world peace to the people exposed to it because its primary message is equality. All humans are created equally and the sooner the people realize this the sooner everyone can be that much closer to world peace. …show more content…
Most wars are brought upon because of differences. By taking a moment to reflect we can imagine a world of peace we can also come up with a solution. A solution that doesn’t bring out hatred and deaths of innocent people. The song Imagine was written based on the poem by Yoko Ono John Lennon’s wife. Yoko Ono had to endure the second world war in her home country of Japan. It’s a question to wonder do the people enduring wars come to a realization at some point where nothing matters and winning is no longer important?
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John Lennon was not the only one imagining such a world. Based on the millions of views on YouTube along with other media and the multiple celebrities showing their love for the song its clear to see the world is ready for peace. The song makes the audience participate in imaging a world where the unnecessary things of culture don’t matter anymore. It makes the listener look inside of themselves if only for three minutes. As unbelieve as it sounds that’s the only time the listener needs to start questioning why we as humans keep fighting. Everyone is trying to live as best as they can and as happily as possible. Why should anyone be judged or be punished for something they believe? People are greedy, the more they have the more they want. That creates a vicious cycle of accumulating stuff and fighting for more stuff if there are no possessions there is nothing to fight for.
“Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man” (Lennon,
Because of that, they switch between imagination and reality. The two poems emphasize the boys’ childhoods through their interest in playing war, and show their immaturity in trying to be proud and aggressive. However, their naivety is holding them back from developing their senses of awareness and consciousness to become a grown-up man. However, with war imagination, boys are creating their boundaries rather than moving on.
In A Separate Peace, John Knowles demonstrates how the boys’ “separate peace” has underlying war imagery through their symbols and behavior. It’s obvious that the boys have the war on their minds because it appears in small,
I think if we were ever going to live in a perfect world, we all have to start working together for peace. For a world with no violence, a world with no crime, a place ridden with everything bad.
The song sends a positive and peaceful aura; John Lennon hopes we can all live as one. He establishes his credibility, or ethos, by being one of the original
As can be seen, Paul Boyer, Tim O’Brien, and Kenneth W. Bagby, convey the notion that war affects the one’s self the most. Through the use of literary devices: tone, mood, pathos, and imagery, these 3 authors portray that war affects a person’s self most of all. War is not only a battle between two opposing sides, but it can also be a mental conflict created within a person. Although war is able to have an effect on physical relationships between family, friends, or even society, conflict within oneself is the most inevitable battle one must face during war times.
He writes of seeing the days when there is no war, but peace. He writes, “Someday at Christmas men won't be boys/Playing with bombs like kids play with toys” (Lines 1-2). Wonder is expressing his hope for military troops and armed forces to stop fighting. He believes that someday at Christmas men will ‘grow up’, and will not obsess over war and violence. In an analysis of the song, a critic says, “As one of mainstream music's first Christmas songs with an intentional social and political message, the song pressed for an end to the Vietnam War and called for compassion and peace” (Richardson). He feels these troops are focused on war and battling and making weapons of destruction as eagerly and regularly as kids play with toys. Wonder hopes, “Someday at Christmas there'll be no wars/When we have learned what Christmas is for/When we have found what life's really worth/There'll be peace on earth” (Lines 5-9). Wonder is hoping everyone can see life as a gift and acknowledge its value. He feels once everyone can realize that they will not be so hell bent on warring with one another. One day, “Hate will be gone and love will prevail” (Line 26). Wonder dreams of a world where men are free, hate is gone, and there are no tears. Someday at Christmas time, he wishes to see a new world filled with peace, hope, and
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, written by the talented author Chris Hedges, gives us provoking thoughts that are somewhat painful to read but at the same time are quite personal confessions. Chris Hedges, a talented journalist to say the least, brings nearly 15 years of being a foreign correspondent to this book and subjectively concludes how all of his world experiences tie together. Throughout his book, he unifies themes present in all wars he experienced first hand. The most important themes I was able to draw from this book were, war skews reality, dominates culture, seduces society with its heroic attributes, distorts memory, and supports a cause, and allures us by a constant battle between death and love.
“I dream a world where… love will bless the earth and peace its paths adorn.” -- Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman’s poem Time to Come explores Whitman’s curiosity of what happens when people die. Rather than taking a pessimistic approach, his writing is more insightful about the experience. The title alone introduces an aspect of his purpose; to point out that dying is inevitable. With Whitman captures the reader’s attention and shares his curiosity with vivid images, sophisticated diction, and his use of metaphor and personification in Time to Come.
...f starvation (New York Times). This is most likely Lennon's motive for this line. In the final line of the track, Lennon sings “a brotherhood of man”. This line single handedly summarizes Lennon's entire motive for writing the song.
The most well known are the bed ins and billboards. John and Yoko were married March 20th, 1969 and instead of having a regular honeymoon, they decided to utilize their time in the eyes of the public. Starting on March 25th, they immersed themselves in a week long “Bed-in for peace” in their room at the Amsterdam Hilton, where they invited dozens of reporters to attend and listen to what they had to say about peace. Again, on May 26th, they had another bed-in for peace in Montreal, Canada. This is where he recorded his famous song “Give Peace A Chance.” In this second bed-in, Lennon also recorded an inspirational message that helped save protesters lives in the Berkeley Park Protest. In addition, him and Yoko bought billboard space all over the world and put up signs that read “WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT. HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM JOHN AND YOKO.” These signs and bed-ins gave awareness to the cause and also got people to start a revolution of their own. Lastly, John was involved in an anti-vietnam movie titled “How I Won The
The Beatles are probably one of the greatest sensations the world has ever seen. No other band has ever had a larger effect on their fans and listeners as The Beatles, ever since they started to take over the ears of the world during the birth of “The Beatles Revolution” (not to be confused with The Beatles song “Revolution”) in 1963. A lot of their songs were based on their continual efforts to promote the concept of world peace. No other song written by John Lennon is more blatant in this promotion of peace than the song “Give Peace A Chance.” Songfacts.com says, “This song was recorded in 1969 during John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s notorious “bed in” in which they stayed in bed for eight days in an effort to promote world peace. This song quickly became an anti-war movement anthem when a large number of people thought America should not have been fighting the War in Vietnam.” Lennon directly states in the third verse of “Give Peace A Chance,” “(Let me tell you now) / Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout / Revolution, Evolution, Masturbation, Flagellation, Regulation, / Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations / All we are saying is give peace a chance / All we are saying is give peace a chance” (“Give Peace A Chance”).
was going or could go wrong and peace was to be for all. Also because
John Lennon was born on October 9th 1940 in Liverpool, England 1. His father left the family to sail the seas before Lennon’s earliest childhood memory and his mother was taken away by a car accident when he was 18 2. A year after his mother’s death, the Vietnam War took place, which is The United State’s longest military dispute ever. The world famous band, The Beatles, debut on 1961 not long after the start of the war and through this band, Lennon was able to demonstrate his feelings to the people across the world. "Revolution," performed by The Beatles, was created in 1968, when the anti-war demonstration was on the move. After the separation of The Beatles in 1969, Lennon composed the song "Imagine" (1971) 3. This song proves that Lennon is a Peace-Loving-Atheist and a "Voluntarist" 4 that believes in the scheme that people’s ideas can change social reality; however simultaneously admits that there are constantly wars going on in the world. As a result, he could be a mixture of all four, Realist, Liberal, Marxist and Constructivist. On December 8th 1980, approximately five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Lennon was assassinated by Mark Chapman 5. It is not for certain that the word assassination could be used on a singer, song writer who also published books. However there is no doubt about the fact that Lennon touched many people’s hearts around the world and maybe was even praised as an almighty figure.
"I hope some day you will join us, and the world will live as one" Simplicity combines with deep meaning when John Lennon expresses his thoughts in his song "Imagine." This song was a huge hit in the 70’s, the time in which the Vietnam War was occurring. John Lennon’s “Imagine”, was a protest song that questions the morality of war, shows anti-war statements and emphasizes the importance of world peace. In America, every civilian has the Freedom of Speech. For this, artists have every right to compose a protest song. Even if the government is not fond of it, anyone could potentially write a song going against his or her beliefs, which is exactly what Lennon did with "Imagine," in a peaceful way. At the time Lennon’s song went against most beliefs, for people believed that violence in war was the answer to everything. Amongst passive resistance, the refusal to cooperate with legal requirements, strikes and angry mobs, Lennon chose the much calmer approach and simply composed a protest song. A protest song is simply a song that argues a point and tries to encourage one thing against another. In his song "Imagine", Lennon protest that the World should live in peace; keep in mind the Vietnam War was occurring at the time. It was then that protest songs were created to try and make points across, without the actual violence of rioting in protest.