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 came to die, discover that
I had not lived.
This is the poetry of American poet Walt
Whitman as well as the opening chapter of the story 'Death Poets
Society'.
It's a tad depressing but a
perfect ending. It didn't need anything more. You didn't need to
know what happened to Keating. You didn't need to know what
happened to the boys. Everything was summed up in the few words put
over in the scene and Williams' final 'Thank you, Boys'.
Though it was a flim made in 1989. And the
story was out of our experience. We can still learn something from
it, such as thinking our fantasy and choice.