THE FUNDAMENTAL REASON WHY I BOTHER GOING TO THE TEMPLE OF LEARNING AND EDUCATION (why am i in school for short haha LOL :p)

Basically, I'm in school because I wanna learn. How can I live when I don't even know anything? If I don't know anything, I'm comparable to a feather being brought up and fled by the wind, not knowing where I would go. I wanna build a future of my own, that's why I'm in school. I wanna prepare for what's coming ahead of me. I might become a doctor, lawyer, metro-aide, policeman, but even though I don't know what will become of me yet, I need to be prepared. I don't wanna be a mere citizen, part of the mediocre, eating my daily lunch, doing my everyday chores, sleeping, and letting the day pass by without contributing something to society and its people. I wanna be more productive, I wanna make a change. I wanna have the power to speak my mind aloud to the world and tell them my ideas, opinions, aspirations, and comments about things. But of course, if I know nothing, how can I accomplish this? School is the house of knowledge, wisdom and intellect, so I do my best for the sole purpose that I become the best of what I am and what I can be. I love being in school because it builds up my identity. School helps me so that I may help the world. It is never wrong to learn, right? :)

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON MUSIC VIDEOS

BABY NOW THAT I FOUND YOU - ALISON KRAUSS

This particular song is a live performance as you can see. It's video quality is quite poor this video has been shot way back on those years. The song mainly speaks of this person, probably a girl (based on my instincts haha), who tells of her love to a boy, and can never let him go, since she has "found" him, thus the title. Alison's hair was still short then.

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TRULY MADLY DEEPLY - SAVAGE GARDEN

A song from one of my top rated bands, the summary of the video is that the girl and the boy find each other until the end, they do find each other! Haha. While looking for each other, they see people kissing and showing love to each other and they become aggravated of some sort because they haven't found each other yet. Well, the video quality is good, and the scenes are shot from some country that appraises art and architecture so much because the views are spectacular. Plus the sepia tint of the video adds a subtle touch to the video itself. Nice.

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I KNEW I LOVED YOU - SAVAGE GARDEN

Well, one of my favorite songs from one of my most adored bands, haha. The title says it all, it's like premonition or something. Basically, the video goes like this: There's this train wherein Darren Hayes (the vocalist), and Kirsten Dunst (the girl) are sitting, facing each other. After randomly zooming into different people also riding the said train, the lights go off and emergency red lights turn on. People start holding their hands, and after that, Darren and Kirsten (ooh they rhyme haha) reach for each other and hold each other's hands, suddenly bringing snapshots of them being together, full of love, even kissing, happy and all. Then the lights go on again and they release each other's hands, ending the "visions". Then they arrive at the station, exiting at the same time by coincidence. Kirsten smiles at Darren then leaving him. The video is good, and the story as well because it accurately coincides with the lyrics of the song. I personally like it also because of its message. Haha.

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ANALYSIS : I personally chose these three videos because they exude the same idea: love. Baby Now That I Found You and Truly Madly Deeply express the concept of loving and never letting go whilst I Knew I Loved You expresses something like love at first sight. Nevertheless, they are all great!

ANNABEL LEE

ANNABEL LEE

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

>>`"Annabel Lee" was a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. This poem explained and symbolized the death of her wife. His wife died due to a burst in one of her blood vessels in 1847. Due to her ill condition in 1842, his anxiety worsened. Moreover, they were lacking money, therefore seeing Poe's mother-in-law as an important soucre of strength for the couple.

This is probably the last poem Poe wrote. In 1850, Frances S. Osgood identified Poe's wife, Virginia Clemm, as the real Annabel Lee, an attribution that has meet with much agreement. In contrast, T. O. Mabbott and other scholars have pointed out that although perhaps inspired, in part, by Virginia, Annabel Lee is a fictional character and need not truly represent any real person. Elmira Shelton, Poe's childhood sweetheart, considered herself as Annabel Lee, even though she outlived the author by many years.

Sources:

Nagill, F. N. (1992). Critical survey of poetry. Volume 5. Pasadena: Salem Press Inc.
Smith, A. J. M. (1967). Seven centuries of verse, English and American. United States of America, Canada: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Grafx, G. (1997). http://www.pambytes.com/poe/poems/annabel.html. September 17, 2007.