O Me O Life Analysis

3. In the film Dead Poets Society and using poem “O me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman was Neil`s choice making a suicide wrong, because how bad his life was it was never so bad, that he could made a suicide. Because always is an answer or solution for situation. In the poem is the writer put into question too life existents and the thought of living. Walt Whitman is also gave an answer for that “That you are here-that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse”. I understand that this answer like this, if Neil could not made a suicide and chosen to live and he could had still a life and identity and that he would had a choice to change his life and try many things more. And maybe he would had liked other things to, even becoming a doctor, the

11. Text "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." was chosen as the traditional opening message of the Dead Poets Society, because this text told and explained exactly, what is going to happen and the meaning of the film. Also seems to me that this film was based like on that text. This text explained very well that boys were gathering and doing Dead Poets Society meetings and read out poetry because it it caused them a feeling of freedom, a feeling that they could be anyone in that cave, when they read out poems and reading out poems gave them encourage to do something with their life. And reading poems was for them just like another world and it gave them try to live the kind of life that is worth of living. For example got Knox Overstreet encouraged to tell Chris that he loves her or Neil Perry tried acting, what he had always wanted to try out but he had not enough encourage for that or Todd who was very shy and did not express his feelings but reading out poems showed him that he was great poem