Long ago, I had watched the smash hit "Dead Poets' Society", this is a very few movies which make me in stitches at the very beginning but burst into tears at the end. I like and admire the starring KEATING---a kind and enthusiastic mentor not for his students in the movie but all of us. How I wish I could be a student of Keating in the movie...In the film's dramatic conclusion, the boys return to English class following Keating's dismissal. The class is now being temporarily taught by Nolan, who has the boys read from the very Pritchard essay they had ripped out at the start of the semester. As the lesson drones on, Keating enters the room to retrieve a few belongings. On his way out, Todd apologizes to Keating for having signed the confession, citing the pressure exerted by the Academy and his parents. Keating acknowledges this. Nolan sternly orders Todd to be quiet and demands that Keating leave at once. As he exits the door, Keating is startled to hear "O Captain! My Captain!" being called out by Todd, who has stood on his desk as Keating bade him to do earlier, demonstrating the new perspective Keating has taught him. Enraged, Nolan warns Todd to sit down immediately or face expulsion, only to be defied. Then, one after another, the members of the Dead Poets Society (excepting Cameron, conspicuously) climb onto their desks and look at Mr. Keating proudly... I couldn't helping cheering for them with deep love and respect!
"Oh Captain, My Captain"! It's the title of a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Recent days, I’m reading the "Leaves of Grass" by Whitman I had borrowed from our library. Some of his words which were quoted in the movie "D.P.S" are always haunting in my mind, it says like this:
" We don't read and write poetry
because it's cute.
We read and write poetry because
we are members of the human race...
And the human race
is filled with passion.
And medicine, law, business,
engineering...
These are noble pursuits
and necessary to sustain life.
But poetry, beauty...
romance, love...
These are what we stay alive for."
I like poetry as much as I like music and sports games, I had once made a speech in which I had said I would be satisfied enough in my college life if only there are three parts included, that is, library, music and playground. hehe, this is me---a girl who is dreaming in the sea of poetry, music and sports!
Thanks! Thanks for providing us with such a nice stage for learning and sharing our thoughts! And I'm so glad to meet u guys all in my life!
Be free to come, my friend---missing you! Happy=-=Sunny!
