A sustained metaphor carried across multiple lines or the entire song
Top lyrical devices by writer – Lennon: Anaphora (39), Simile (11), Wordplay (10); McCartney: Anaphora (21), Extended metaphor (8), Pastiche (8); Harrison: Anaphora (11), Extended metaphor (4), Double meaning (3).
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% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)
Sun = pursuit of happiness elsewhere
Clown/mask conceit hiding true self
'Yesterday' as lost happiness
Falling in love
Looking through someone as seeing true nature
'Face she keeps in a jar by the door'
Home repair = mental/creative work
Pigs = the establishment throughout
Julia as natural elements
Weeping guitar as grief for the world
Blackbird as oppressed person
Old brown shoe = old self
Sun/winter as emotional renewal
Mind as cosmos/universe
Road as life's journey back to lover
Words, thoughts, images as cosmic forces
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Revolution in the Head
Ian MacDonald
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The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
Alan Aldridge
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