Dead Poems
POETRY FROM THE FILM
THE DEAD POET'S SOCIETY
"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."
- Dead Poet's Society
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O Captain! My Captain!
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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.
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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.
3
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
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting;
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer heòs to setting.
That age is best, which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.
- Robert Herrick
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O Me! O Life!
O ME O life!...of the questions of these recurring:
Of the endless trains of the faithless-- of cities fill'd with the foolish;....
What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here-- that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.
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Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams
And I'll show you a happy man
- Tennyson
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But only in their dreams can men be truly free
It was always thus and always thus will be.
- Keating
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I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,
To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die
Discover that I had not lived.
- Thoreau
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The Prophet
Teach me to Love? go teach thyself more wit;
I chief Professor am of it....
The God of Love, if such a thing there be,
May learn to love from Me.
He who does boast that he has been
In every Heart since Adamòs sin,
I'll lay my Life, nay Mistress on't that's more;
I teach him thing he never knew before;
- Cowley
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Ulysses
...Come, my friends,
`Tis not too late to seek a newer world...
for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset,...
and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
-Tennyson
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Most men live lives of quiet desperation. - Thoreau
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Dare to strike out and find new ground.
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I sound my barbaric YAWP over the rooftops of the word.. - Whitman
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The Road Not Taken
...Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that made all the difference.
- Frost
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Shall I compare thee to a summeròs day
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
-Shakespeare
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
All that's best of dark and bright
Melt in her aspect and her eyes:
- Byron
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this -- and all is mended--
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend;
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to escape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call:
So, good night unto you all,
Give me your hand, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
posted by dconlay @ 5:55 PM
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“Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams
And I'll show you a happy man”
-Tennyson
In other words to put it in simpler terms, do not pursue what you cannot have, otherwise you would fretter your life away, attempting to accomplish that which cannot be done. This does not mean abandon all hope of accomplishment in a surreal dream, it simple says when your figure out that something cannot be done, do not pursue it, be content with what you have, or better yet, be happy with what you have. Many people have accomplished what others thought as impossible, yet they have triumphed, why, because they knew it could be done, others have spent entire lives and then some refusing to back down from what they believed was impossible, why did they fail, simple because they knew it was impossible. I personally do not believe that everything is impossible, but I do know when I have been beaten, and I have stepped down and have not dwelled on the fact that it is impossible. I believe that the only way for something to unreachable is if you truly believe it is unreachable, if you know something can be done which other believe was impossible, then they will never accomplish it, you will. People who are happy with what is given to them are the happiest people in the world.
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the poem is about ulysses and his goal. He is talking to his crew saying we shall sail around the world. He is talking about the crews fate and what that they going to try to reach the goal.
The poem written bye Frost, The Road Not Taken, reminded me of the saying, "Its my way or the high way." The way I understand this poem is that you do not always have to fallow peoples foot steps. There are two roads you can take, the road everyone elses fallows and the road hardly every one fallows. Sometimes the best road to take is the road that no one takes. Even though everyone is doing it doesn't meen that you have to do it. Taking the other road can make a big diffrence in what the outcome is. For example alot of people do not like doing there homework so they don't. Just because other people take the road of not doing it does not mean that you have to. Taking the opposite road and doing your homework can make a great diffrence in your grade. Looking at this example you can see that if you take a diffrent road it can make a big diffrence, but sometimes a great diffrence in your life.
"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."
- Dead Poet's Society
I like this poem the most because it describes how life really is! All peolpe really want in life is to be happy and loved. And that is what this poem describes. But most peolpe don't get what they want and they just settle for what happens.
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