What is Imagine by John Lennon about?

Answer 1

It was about if there wasn't anything separating each one of us (religion, etc.) the world would be a better place.

To put it plainly, Imagine is a plea for world peace and Lennon was simply stating the reasons (or problems) that caused the most grief in the world and asked the listener to "Imagine" what it would be like if these things didn't exist..

Greed ("Imagine no possessions"..)

Religion ("Imagine there's no heaven" "and no religion too"..)

Nationaliasm ("Imagine there's no countries"..) ("Nothing to kill or die for")

Also, it's about the central ideas of Communism, not just anti-socialism.

For a while, Lennon was pro-communism, and obviously against socialism.

Answer 2

Imagine appeared on Billboard chart Sept. 18, 1971 reaching #1 for 30 weeks. John wrote and performed this himself (when he was separated from The Beatles group.) John Lennon used political lyrics as well in his songs and certainly very poetic and wrote many great songs, but 'Imagine' had good and bad reviews. From the religious point of view since there was no heaven then there was no God. It was probably a time when John Lennon was going through a change in life like many of us do and he was a 'dreamer' wishing the world had peace from war and that everyone had love and peace in their hearts. What his religious views were before his death is private and no one will ever know that. My personal view is the fact as all of us get older war, killing, genecide, etc., makes no sense and we all wonder why there just can't be peace. I imagine John Lennon was tired like the rest of us and in a mood to write this song. Many people were split in half over the fact the song started out re 'Imagine there's no heaven'. Here's the lyrics to Lennon's Imagine (1971):

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

Answer 3

Here is the poem itself--

"Imagine" by John Lennon

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 that 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 that 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

Answer 4

Yoko Ono's book Grapefruit, which contained numerous "instructional" poems, many of which told the reader to imagine different things.

Answer 5

Did you mean : Did John Lennon write Imagine?

Then yes.

Answer 6

The song Imagine is manly about peace and love so you just gotta listen like when John says Imagine no posetions try it

Answer 7

The theme in Imagine is the singer is saying that there will be a world without hunger or greed or violence.

Answer 8

The world will live as one

Answer 9

Peacee . (: