I’d be lying if I said this song didn’t inspire some of my best poetry. Lol. What comes to mind is the “Mind in a Vat” philosophy, and then it moved on from there to Leviathan—a creature I kind of half made up for a storybook I wrote—which then became of course Death, and then the Yellow Submarine became Leviathan; so the song kind of inspired me to make the Yellow Submarine the belly of She’ol or the Grave. Very archetypal song with a lot of subconscious ruminations that kind of just happen for some reason. I find it one of the Beetle’s best.
That and Hey Jude—which may or may not be what influenced me to take on the persona of Judas Son of James in my writing. If so, that one would be unintentional. But, Elora is Brittos’ wife, which he has to win from Medea. Of course, Brittos is being offered the World by Medea, but he wants to win his wife and get his modest life instead. And of course, the song is about Jude—in the Beetle’s Poem—wanting to start a movement to gain the world, instead of settling for his wife. As in to say, that’s an archetypal struggle of a Christian to either A: Take the modest blessing, or B: Try and start a movement to “Change the World.” Which my poetry is very conscious about not wanting to “Change the World”, but rather wanting to “Change the Heart.” And the song is about finding love so the heart doesn’t get bad. Which, in the Ode of Brittos and Medea, the Protagonist has to accept the fact that he’s saved by Grace, otherwise he’ll succumb to Medea and her offering of the world.
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