Analyse chanson Imagine, John Lenon

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Il s'agit d'un document d'environ une page word qui peut donner des pistes d'analyses de la chanson "Imagine" de John Lenon. Le document est rédigé pour une classe de littéraire anglaise, des fautes d'anglais sont peut-être à corriger

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[...] * To write his famous song, John Lennon is inspired by a poem written by his wife. It talks about her childhood during the Second World War. He writes his song in 1971 when the USA fight against the USSR in Vietnam. The army of the USA slaughters a lot of people what shocks many societies and Americans. Peaceful feelings and movements are created as the hippie movement. So the political context is tense and Lennon follows and supports the social peaceful movements in his song which shows that he is against war and for peace. [...]

[...] All along his song, John Lennon uses the lexical field of Utopia. Indeed, he uses the lexical field of dream ("imagine", "dreamer"), the vocabulary of peace and harmony ("peace", "sharing", "join", "all the people" . ) Song analysis : * The word is three time to rhyme what insists on the idea of a united world, a unit society. Moreover, in the chorus, "one" rhymes with the same word but they don't have the same meaning. The first "one" must show the loneliness of John Lennon who may be seen as a dreamer that dreams cut from the world, but the second "one" underlines that he is not and that the world could be that means united, if the other dreamers join him. [...]

[...] This first person is another way to touch the public who can be sympathetic to the utopia imagined by Lennon. Regarding the figurative language, the first verse is about life and death embodied by heaven and hell. This religious lexical field enables the singer to start his ode to life, in a kind of carpe diem. Indeed, he begins in saying that we don't have to worry about what could happen after death and just enjoy life, the present time. [...]