It is also rumored that “I am the Walrus” was Lennon’s attempt at a shot against Bob Dylan. He felt Dylan got away with murder lyrically with his nonsensical verbalization. He felt he worked hard to gain meaning and Dylan just wrote for effect. So he took up the mantle and wrote for effect in a beautiful way.

Dylan actually got his penchant for hidden meaning and using words for effect from the beatniks like Ferlinghetti and Watts.  Both very melodic in the way they read sound driven poetry with some but little direct clear meaning.  The chant like sound was a distinctive approach that is still a trademark of Dylan’s music. I like it. But I enjoy William Blake’s literature and children’s poetry. So words for effect give me some delight. But when the underlying meaning of communication is that words are only as important as their effect it hampers my style as a communicator.