Blackbird

This song by the Beatles was written during the 1960s, which was a time of civil rights movements. I think that the song is about the civil rights movement because it has symbols throughout it which contribute to my belief.

Symbolic words:
-"waiting for this moment to be free" This phrase is symbolic of the freedoms the African Americans in the 1960s where fighting for. All this time they had just been waiting until the moment arose for it to finally come true.
- "the light of the dark black night."The light in the dark of night symbolizes hope when hope is no where to found. Light allows you to see in the dark to find your way. The African Americans where treated horribly for so long that it seemed dark with no way out. The light finally came giving them hope to be able to come out of the darkness they had been facing.
- "Take these broken wings and learn to fly" Broken wings are symbolic of the troubles that have brought you down in the past. The African Americans of the 1960s had gone through so much and had little hope of things ever changing but they still took what they had and tried to change it(learning to fly)