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** spoiler alert ** I went to the woods because 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 came to die, discover that I had not lived.

“Carpe Diem,��... “Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.��

I watched Deat Poets Society movie a few years ago and I still sometimes watch its clips. It’s one of my all-time favorite
movies. A week ago I was scrolling through my ŷ������ feeds and found this book and I screamed like
WHAT??? THIS BOOK DO EXIST?!! Boy, my emotions at that moment!!!
This book isn’t only about poetry, it’s about life, dreams, love, everything. It’s a silver line in the clouds
of despair and helplessness we feel. Parents think that they are doing the best with their children but
often they don’t. While dreaming big for the children, they don’t pause for a moment to ask them,
“what do you want?��, “are you happy�� or “what makes you happy?.�� The pressure they put on children often leads to what happened at the end of this book.
I think every other person who reads or watch Dead Poets Society will feel this connection with the characters because we all have been through what Neil, Todd and the others were feeling. Since I knew what was going to happen, I just couldn’t stop my tears as I was reading Neil getting excited about acting, doing his best to get the part and dancing with joy when he got it. He was so full of life. He brought back the Dead Poet Society, he made his friends do what they love, he was there for Todd, he was just the perfect human being!. And when he took his life, it was like he took a piece of my heart with him. As Todd said, “Neil wouldn’t kill himself! He loved living!�� Damn it, he loved living!
And Todd, Todd is so precious. His poems, his love, his loneliness, you can’t help but love him and want to comfort him. I love how he stands for the Captain at the end and told his parents off.
Charlie, my Nuwanda boy! I love him. And I love Knox. Meeks, Pitts, all of them. My dead poets!!!
And how can I forget about John Keating! “O Captain! My Captain!��. Keating is like The Person we all need to meet at least once in our life time and it’s our misfortune that rarely we meet people like him.

Here are some of Keating’s quotes:

“I say—drivel! One reads poetry because he is a member of the human race, and the human race is filled
with passion! Medicine, law, banking—these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

“That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.�� …”What will your verse be?��

“And don’t limit poetry to the word. Poetry can be found in music, a photograph, in the way a meal is prepared—anything with the stuff of revelation in it. It can exist in the most everyday things but it must never, never be ordinary. By all means, write about the sky or a girl’s smile, but when you do, let your poetry conjure up salvation day, doomsday, any day. I don’t care, as long as it enlightens us, thrills us and—if it’s inspired—makes us feel a bit immortal.��

“Lads, there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.��

I can talk and talk about this book. This will ever be in my heart.