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“Beautiful Day” U2 A Literary Analysis of the Lyrics
U2 has always been considered a complex and ever-changing band, and the meanings of some of their songs will never be totally understood. “Beautiful Day” is no exception; the whole song is, in its entirety, symbolism. It also includes examples of a discernable rhyme scheme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, imagery, the use of a metaphor, meter, and personification. Not used were similes and -????-.
To start explaining the symbolism used in the song would take several decades, so it is stated very simply here, in the theme:
The beauty in the world around us is often lost to us in the pandemonium the makes up human life today. Sometimes people need to break free of society and experience the world as it was before mankind, and how it will remain long after.
In lines 56-60, the theme stated above is supported rather well.
“What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
You don’t need it now”
This tells whoever is caring to listen, that material possessions and how much wealth a person has is worthless in the grand scheme of things, and that humans, as a species, somehow know that deep down in the fiber of there being. (Counting myself as merely an outside observer…)
A major note of symbolism also occurs in lines 38-39:
“See the bird with a leaf in her mouth, After the flood all the colors came out.” This statement refers to Genesis, in the Hebrew bible, and refers to the story of Noah, the lone survivor of a terrible flood (not including his family) sent by God to destroy the human species. Noah survived the flood because he was the only person worth saving, and had built an ark as commanded by God. After a period of time, after the waters had stopped flooding, Noah sent out a dove, searching for land. The first few times she came back with nothing, but eventually came back with a leaf, hence the line in “Beautiful Day”. Noah searched for land, found it, and managed to set the ark down on top of Mount ?Arahat?, (all without an instruction manual) and freed the animals. God then made the first rainbow, as a covenant that he/she/??? would never destroy the world by flooding it again. This refers to the next line in the stanza. Rhyme scheme