Choose one option and write your blog post on it:
Option #1
Read the following quote by Professor John Keating from the movie Dead Poets Society. What do you
think it means? Explain.
I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things a different way. The
world looks very different up here . . . Just when you think you think you know something you
have to look at it in another way . . . When you read, don’t just consider what the author thinks,
you must consider what you think.
Option #2
The following is a piece of poetry that is recited in the film Dead Poets Society. Read the selection
and explain what this piece means the to you. What do you think this passage meant? Why did
you like this piece?
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we
sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the
steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you
the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding; For you
they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm
beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no
pulse nor will; The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful
trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with
mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. —Walt Whitman
Option #3
What does Carpe Diem mean to you? How can you apply this to your life now? in the future? Explain.
