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    importance of living in the present moment while treating the future as nonexistent. He stresses the fact that humans cannot control time or know what the future holds. Therefore‚ Horace orders Leuconoe to enjoy life as if today were the last day‚ for he does not know if he will have tomorrow waiting for him to take action. Horace says that as mortals‚ people are forbidden from knowing what fate has in store for them. Instead‚ they must let it run its predestined course blindly. He begins by addressing

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    CARPE DIEM ISLAND We the people of CARPE DIEM Island‚ in Order to establish a good community where all people from different countries live happily‚ promote peace instead of wars/ conflicts‚ make laws beneficial to all‚ creating a better business environment‚ cleaner environment‚ and assist the needy at home and abroad…. We the people of CARPE DIEM Island‚ in Order to establish a good community where all people from different countries live happily‚ promote peace instead of wars/ conflicts‚ make

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    twice who conquers himself in victory (Publius Syrus) dimidium facti qui coepit habet He who has begun has the work half done (Horace) Inspirational Latin Sayings faber est quisque fortunae suae every man is architect of his own fortune bis vivit qui bene vivit S/he lives twice who lives well dimidium facti qui coepit habet He who has begun has the work half done (Horace) bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory (Publius Syrus) aut viam inveniam

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    evaluated‚ all the students are brought in one by one for questioning. Cameron tells the headmaster everything‚ after he does the other boys also begin telling him all about the dead poet society getting Mr. Keating fired. The life lesson I choose was Carpe diem. It showed the boys to seize the day and to not let others tell you how to live your life. The boys accomplished this throughout the entire movie‚ but especially in the end when Todd stands up on his desk risking getting kicked out of the academy

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    Elizabethan dramatist‚ was a wonderful poet of pastoral poetry and using carpe diem themes. He has written many poems‚ however‚ three poems in particular‚ have similar themes. These poems are‚ "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love"‚ "The Face That Launch’d A Thousand Ships"‚ and "Who Ever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight?" All of these poems share two things in common‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ and their pastoral and carpe diem themes. Marlowe was born in 1564 to a shoemaker in Canterbury. Before a

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    Tia Poindexter December 25th‚ 2012 English 12 In the film‚ Dead Poets Society‚ Welton Academy is founded on tradition and excellence and is set on providing strict structured lessons by realist‚ close-minded‚ and anti-youth administration. When Mr. John Keating‚ a former student returns to Welton Academy and teaches English‚ he inspires a class of teenage boys to pursue their desires and live life to the fullest through his Poetry unit which included a former secret society that Mr. Keating

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    war‚ loyalty to the king‚ and carpe diem. Marvell speaks to his prudish mistress in ’To His Coy Mistress.’ Herrick attempts to persuade Corinna to seize the day in ’Corinna’s Going A-Maying.’ Sir John Suckling speaks to his friend to convince him to forget his love in ’Why So Pale and Wan’ Lovelace speaks to his lovers about the limitations placed on relationships and the need to seize the day in ’To Lucasta‚’ and ’To Althea.’ All of these poets emphasize carpe diem‚ which means seize the day. Marvell

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    war. He does so fearlessly with the belief in carpe diem. ’Tell me not‚ Sweet‚ I am unkind‚ that from the nunnery of thy chaste breasts‚ and quiet mind‚ to war and arms I fly(“ to lucasta on going to the wars” ln 1-4). Challenges such as prison‚ or war‚ inspire Lovelace to live more for the moment. The seconded poem I picked is “The Bait” by John Donne. He writes about how women are the fish bait and mean are the fish. To express carpe diem in his poem he has the men start off as playing the

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    majority of Góngora’s works were written in sonnet form. His sonnets allowed him to free up space on a lot of meaning in a verse condensed (Mujica). Topics that are most popular with Góngora are the subject of beauty and ugliness and the theme of carpe diem‚ which uses various literary reasons for presenting the issues in the

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    Robert Herrick’s poem‚ "To the Virgins to make much of Time‚" focuses upon the idea of carpe diem. The poem stresses the idea of marriage while love and flesh are still young‚ or one may suffer in their later years alone and loveless. Herrick believes this gift of virginity to be a great waste if not given while it is still desirable. Virginity is a gift for the simple reason that it can only be given once to one person‚ which he believes should be the husband. Therefore‚ he says to go out and find

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