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    evaluated‚ all the students are brought in one by one for questioning. Cameron tells the headmaster everything‚ after he does the other boys also begin telling him all about the dead poet society getting Mr. Keating fired. The life lesson I choose was Carpe diem. It showed the boys to seize the day and to not let others tell you how to live your life. The boys accomplished this throughout the entire movie‚ but especially in the end when Todd stands up on his desk risking getting kicked out of the academy

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    Elizabethan dramatist‚ was a wonderful poet of pastoral poetry and using carpe diem themes. He has written many poems‚ however‚ three poems in particular‚ have similar themes. These poems are‚ "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love"‚ "The Face That Launch’d A Thousand Ships"‚ and "Who Ever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight?" All of these poems share two things in common‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ and their pastoral and carpe diem themes. Marlowe was born in 1564 to a shoemaker in Canterbury. Before a

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    Tia Poindexter December 25th‚ 2012 English 12 In the film‚ Dead Poets Society‚ Welton Academy is founded on tradition and excellence and is set on providing strict structured lessons by realist‚ close-minded‚ and anti-youth administration. When Mr. John Keating‚ a former student returns to Welton Academy and teaches English‚ he inspires a class of teenage boys to pursue their desires and live life to the fullest through his Poetry unit which included a former secret society that Mr. Keating

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    war‚ loyalty to the king‚ and carpe diem. Marvell speaks to his prudish mistress in ’To His Coy Mistress.’ Herrick attempts to persuade Corinna to seize the day in ’Corinna’s Going A-Maying.’ Sir John Suckling speaks to his friend to convince him to forget his love in ’Why So Pale and Wan’ Lovelace speaks to his lovers about the limitations placed on relationships and the need to seize the day in ’To Lucasta‚’ and ’To Althea.’ All of these poets emphasize carpe diem‚ which means seize the day. Marvell

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    war. He does so fearlessly with the belief in carpe diem. ’Tell me not‚ Sweet‚ I am unkind‚ that from the nunnery of thy chaste breasts‚ and quiet mind‚ to war and arms I fly(“ to lucasta on going to the wars” ln 1-4). Challenges such as prison‚ or war‚ inspire Lovelace to live more for the moment. The seconded poem I picked is “The Bait” by John Donne. He writes about how women are the fish bait and mean are the fish. To express carpe diem in his poem he has the men start off as playing the

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    majority of Góngora’s works were written in sonnet form. His sonnets allowed him to free up space on a lot of meaning in a verse condensed (Mujica). Topics that are most popular with Góngora are the subject of beauty and ugliness and the theme of carpe diem‚ which uses various literary reasons for presenting the issues in the

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    Robert Herrick’s poem‚ "To the Virgins to make much of Time‚" focuses upon the idea of carpe diem. The poem stresses the idea of marriage while love and flesh are still young‚ or one may suffer in their later years alone and loveless. Herrick believes this gift of virginity to be a great waste if not given while it is still desirable. Virginity is a gift for the simple reason that it can only be given once to one person‚ which he believes should be the husband. Therefore‚ he says to go out and find

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    „Dead Poets Society“ by N. H. Kleinbaum‚ based on the film by Tom Schulman A word document by Liên Ferreira About the author‚ Nancy H. Kleinbaum: * Graduated from the Medill School of Journalism * Former newspaper reporter and editor * Lives in New York * Born in 1948 About the film: * The book is based on the motion picture from Touchstone Pictures * Produced by Steven Haft‚ Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas * The book is based on the motion picture written by Tom

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    of the poems offers a unique view upon love. The first poem by Robert Herrick‚ "To the Virgins to make much of Time‚" focuses upon the idea of carpe diem. The poem stresses the idea of marriage while love and flesh are still young and believes this gift of virginity to be a great waste if not given while it is still desirable. Marvell also uses the carpe diem theme to his poem ‘To His Coy Mistress‚’ however with three certain sections within the poem. The first part elaborates on the idea of unlimited

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    Carpe diem boys‚ seize the day.” Mr. Keating‚ the English teacher in the Dead Poets Society‚ told this to his class because he wanted them to follow their own hearts and minds instead of the ideas that were taught at their strict boarding school. Thanks to “Carpe Diem” most of Keating’s students start a secret club that reads and discusses poetry. After awhile the students start to apply “Carpe Diem” to their everyday lives. Neil Perry took it to the fullest. Although Neil’s father has planned

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