... follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead."" ---Walt Whitman "Gentlemen: What are the four pillars? Precision! Honor! Discipline! Excellence!- ---Welton's Four Pillars "Now in my class you will learn to think for yourselves again. You will learn to savor ... ; I believe this poem is significant in that it shows how one of the greatest leaders died before he could see what difference he actually had made in many people's lives. Whitman's poem, itself, is about someo...

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... in their own style. Mr. Keating also asks the class to refer to him as "Oh Captain, My Captain", one can assume that he is referring to the poem by Walt Whitman in which a captain's life is being described. Mr. Keating teaches them about the idea of "carpe diem". Romanticism also deals with a person's out look on life; one can see this ... ...

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