Third ISU Blog Post

Slam Poetry Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JAq6VpmgB0

              The video that I have chosen is showing a slam poem written and presented by Michael Lee that is called "Pass On." The poet has great delivery as he manages to show his emotion thoroughly but still keeps himself controlled so that he enunciates effectively. What he is saying is personal but easy to relate and sympathize with. It's powerful and convincing but he is not speaking with facts, he is only speaking using what he believes is true and correct. For example he speaks about a friend of his that was murdered and how he was searching for "him" in someone else for nine years. The person he found was a young male that was playing basketball. As Michael asked him how many years he had been playing basketball for the basketball player responded, "nine years." This is something that does not prove a life after death as it could merely be coincidental. Michael Lee is essentially talking about how the dead live on through random people all over the world, whom haven't even met the deceased. I guess you could say that he is speaking about one possible form of life after death. In the book Elsewhere, which is my ISU book the author writes about another possible form of life after death which consists of you staying yourself but travelling to another world, with other dead people. The video and the book present two different perceptions of the issue that is life after death. This is one of the reasons that I personally don't believe in life after death. It is something that is easy to start believing in to comfort yourself but when you take a step back and look at it you can see the flaws in the idea.