Imagine...no liberals

My granddaughter had a homework assignment tonight that was to interpret the lyrics of any song she chose. In effect, to analyze poetry.

She chose Imagine by 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

She came to me for my ideas. You'all would've been proud of me. I hardly even mentioned that this was a lyrical interpretation of the communist manifesto written by a socialist fellow traveler. I just stuck with the standard utopian 'one world' tripe.

Silky ponies and fuzzy bunnies. No religious strife, no nationalistic turmoil, no greed and separation of economic classes. All the standard stuff that the schools want to hear nowadays.

Of course, I got a little deeper. I couldn't help myself. She certainly wouldn't get an alternate take on this from the school.

Update: She did so well on the report that it put her over the top for placing out of the English final.


Here is another take on it.