Carpe Diem:: A new life Motto

Dead Poets Society deserves very nearly a 9.9. Robin Williams, two young studs, poetry, and a splash of rebellion, no movie can be better than this. This film is the story of a group of high school students learning to live life for themselves, despite the discouragement of doing so from authority. DPS was a solid ten until the main character decides to ruin everyone else's life by taking his own. I understand that this act makes the movie more moving and worthwhile, but it is disappointing anyhow. Everyone loves a happy ending, and this film barely provides one. (Except for the very powerful scene of standing on desks accompanied with the usual triumphant music).

This movie was not exactly about poetry, quite the opposite in fact. It does not actually address poetry's structure, but instead the importance of creating it. This movie stresses the need for people to disassimiliate, think for themselves, and live life unchained to obligation and expectation. It instead suggests Carpe Diem, live life to the fullest. Robin Williams gives a very inspiring performance with a type of role that he needs to take up again, and very soon.

The Dead Poet Society poses poetry in a unique way different than what is typically taught in English classes. It avoids offering a mathmatical and definedway to analyze and create poetry. It actually denounces these methods. Instead, this film tells people that poetry is not a mathematical equation, but a simply the expressing of emotions and thought. That is all. It can be done anywhere, any way, and by anyone as long as it is passionate truth.

This movie should be shown in every English class, not only AP. It brings beauty and appreciation back into poetry, of which was lost (or perhaps not even known to students) through the many tedious years of analyzing poetry in previous grade levels. I did not enjoy poetry at all prior to this movie. However, after seeing this movie my only lack of money is keeping me from buying a poetry book, a notion I never before had. There is a much bigger world of poetry out there, bigger than the usual "thyth flowers are blooming in the spring's soft breath..." banter. The dead poet society sounds very fun, and I only wish it was a program at Thurston. Maybe then appreciation for poetry's beauty and free eloquent expressions of thought will reestablish itself in people.

By the way::
I have adopted Carpe Diem as a new life motto.
I would suggest other humans do so too, as a way of making the world more colorful.
We all know it definitely needs it. People need to take of their shoes and walk barefoot through life. It's the only way to live