Dead Poets Society: 30 years on Robin Williams' stirring call to 'seize the day' endures
To appreciate the cultural impact of Peter Weir’s 1989 coming-of-age classic, Dead Poets Society, one need only note that for a whole generation the line “O Captain! My Captain!” evokes not the poem from which it originated – Walt Whitman’s 1865 elegy to the then recently assassinated US president …
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