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"Imagine"

Propongo di seguito un mia personale interpretazione alla canzone "Imagine" di John Lennon :

Testo della canzone (lingua originale)

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...

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...

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

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

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 live as one

Testo della canzone (traduzione italiana)

Immagina

Immagina non ci sia il Paradiso
prova, è facile
No hell below
Above us only sky Imagine

that people living with this ...

Imagine there's no countries it is not difficult

Nothing to kill and die and no religion


Imagine all the people Living life in peace ..

You can say I'm a dreamer

but not the only one I hope someday you'll join too
and the world will be a ...

Imagine a world with no possessions I wonder if you can

no need for greed or anger

The brotherhood of man Imagine all the people sharing all the world ...

Write a good song in less than twenty-four hours to the already gigantic undertaking, and that few artists have managed to make in the course of music history.
A man has gone beyond this limit, not just writing a song of exquisite workmanship, but composing the "piece" as heard of the twentieth century. A track that combines simplicity, practicality and musicality, and that seems to take back much of the text and melody of "Blowing In The Wind " , "piece" Bob Dylan's historic .

Despite the many similarities exist between the two tracks (both of which from texts strongly critical of the war and carry a message of peace, both built on a relatively simple melody), even after the macroscopic analysis of them, we can see how easily "Imagine" has made a marked improvement over the passage of the American poet and songwriter.
This evolution is evident not just in relation to the melody and text in a diatonic context, as the message that the artists wanted to communicate the historical background behind a bloodied from the many wars (not least in Vietnam) and in profound change political and social. The song
Dylan seems to be directed to an elite as characterized by a clearly poetic text and above all does not seem to be inherent in the concrete itself which is one of the three cornerstones of "Imagine" . John Lennon, the 'intellectual' of the group, as it was nicknamed by the other members of the Beatles, he wrote this song after the breakup of the band in Liverpool (1970) and although the song is far less poetic than the passage of American colleague, His message seems to be able to spread like wildfire within contemporary society and wants to transcend the field in which metaphysical and idealistic environmental Dylan most of his creations.

An attempt to bring the world to perpetual peace, to Lennon, which appears to have addressed to the entire world population, though masked by imaginary interlocutor unspecified ( "Imagine" , "Imagine You" ), as if to underline that all the mass and all the different social strata should do their part in anti-war message accompanied by a melody in DO more has always been the key more easily understandable and identifiable to the human ear, even by those who are not particularly related to music. Dylan's message is delivered instead of a text seems clearly more abstract and more willingness to submit to the aesthetic beauty of the verses, the words "reason" who can not have the same immediacy and the same communicative potential in comparison to those characterizing "Imagine" .
Turning instead to a deeper analysis of the text of Lennon, the first thing that catches your eye is undoubtedly the simplicity of style and semantics chosen by the author: easy to understand words, belonging to everyday life, but apparently discounted since the historical landscape in which the song was born; short verses that emphasize even more the author's purpose, to make the text understandable to anyone and the message of the song, by the greatest intellectuals to the illiterate, in short, a universal text that aims to reconcile tra I popoli( "And The World Will Live As One )e che ha nella pace il suo pilastro portante.
Significativo risulta il fatto che nel testo non compaia direttamente la parola “pace” come se Lennon volesse soltanto suggerire,sussurrare quel termine che,seppure non sia visibile all’interno del testo,circonda il bravo di un’aura protettiva facilmente percepibile.
Per raggiungere quella pace quasi utopica l’autore indica un percorso che si snoda attraverso le due parti che precedono i due ritornelli. Il percorso che costruisce Lennon parte dall’allontanamento da quegli elementi metafisici e non sperimentabili che costituiscono le diverse religioni presenti nel mondo( “Imagine there’s no heaven…No hell below us” )a favore di azioni materiali e tangibili che possano garantire realmente la pace universale.
La critica contro la religione come ostacolo principale per il conseguimento della conciliazione tra i popoli continua nei versi seguenti e viene indicata ora esplicitamente come la causa principale della diversità fra I popoli( “Imagine there’s no countries. And no religion too” ).
Tuttavia la religione non sembra essere l’unico ostacolo e Lennon riscontra anche delle cause legate all’interrelazione sociale tra gli individui. Nella seconda parte del testo viene infatti sottolineato l’arduo compito assegnato all’umanità:la necessità di combattere against greed ( "Imagine no possessions ... no need for greed or hunger" ) and knowing that he must give up something important to achieve the universal unity.
This possibility is emphasized by the rhyme in the second and fourth lines of the third stanza ( "man can ..." ), which aims to highlight a real opportunity to get to the end of the imaginary path indicated by the author. The basic rhyme that translates into a real repetition of the term is present in the second and fourth lines, both within the second that of the fourth (final) stanza. the word "one" fact is repeated four times and highlights once again the goal of universality and cohesion in the world.
Lennon, however, is aware of the difficulty of achieving the latter goal, and the world he describes in the song seems like a dream, we can realize it through the anaphora of the song title that exists during the song.
seems to be confirmed the thesis that supports the typically unrealistic and that the song actually peace and unity of individuals in a "single entity" to be unattainable. However, the Liverpool boy leaves open the door of hope ("It's Easy If You Try") and says he is not the only one to describe this process of peace ("You May say I'ma dreamer, but I'm not the only one" ).
The song therefore seems to be set in a sort of limbo with no paradise nor hell, between the dream of a world without war and united and the present reality of a devastated environment, affected by war and deep ethnic, but characterized by a indestructible and eternal hope.

Valerio Ferri