Robin Williams Trending On Twitter, Inspired Dead Poets Society With Great Words, Ideas; ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ Carpe Diem: When the film Dead Poets Society was released twenty five years ago, Robin Williams played the role of John Keating, a teacher inspiring young boys to ‘seize the day’ and make themselves extraordinary, and develop their passion, whatever it was.
It is unfortunate that a man of such great wit and wisdom was too removed from his own great ideas and free will to make a conscious choice to seek help at the end of his life. Our masters sometimes fail, and it is unbearable for the students to accept that kind of fall.

This week, John Keating’s words ‘O Captain, My Captain’ is trending on twitter as Robin Williams fans all over world continue to pay their tributes and respect to an extraordinary man who was struggling inside with a lot of pain. On the screen, he was always presentable, charming, and knew exactly what to say and do the right thing.

There was a moment in Dead Poets Society when one of the boys in the Keating classroom committed suicide because he wasn’t allowed to pursue his passion by his parents. That was a tragedy symbolizing how things can go wrong when we put in our noblest efforts. And in a strange way it was an omen of how Williams died. He had great dreams and ideas, but people who with depression know that the demons from within are sometime unbearable, and sometimes misleading and sometimes urge you to do things you would not want to do.

Robin Williams as Keating asks: "Why do I stand up here? Anybody? I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way."

"O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you're slightly more daring, ‘O Captain my Captain’."

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