Robin Williams and Allelon Ruggiero in Dead Poets Society (1989)
Movie: 'Dead Poets Society'Poem: "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman
Excerpt:
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; / Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, / For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, /
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning
(Note: Unlike most of the pairings on this list, the writer of the film, and not just the poll author, connected the poem to the film: in the movie, Robin Williams recites the poem in his class, eventually leading to the climactic moment later when students of Williams' character stand on the desks and declare, "O Captain! my Captain!")
See more▼See less▲