From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6186 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, March 17 2021 Volume 14 : Number 6186 Today's Subjects: ----------------- $50 in Exclusive Rewards - Provide Your Opinion on Costco ["Costco Opini] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:39:51 -0400 From: "Costco Opinion Requested" Subject: $50 in Exclusive Rewards - Provide Your Opinion on Costco $50 in Exclusive Rewards - Provide Your Opinion on Costco http://wealthsystem.cyou/KQmT9uBP6LRL5fLvIZSxPvC-_j4laxNDjZtzlyvtCZRs0UdI http://wealthsystem.cyou/0nMvnj9Vc53HPZ1Cjo904aiMROtpx1_uJ9Socwa9WhlxIMsP he poem has frequently been invoked following the deaths of a head of state. After Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945, actor Charles Laughton read "O Captain! My Captain!" during a memorial radio broadcast. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, "O Captain! My Captain!" was played on many radio stations, extending 'ship of state' the metaphor to Kennedy. Following the 1995 assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the poem was translated into Hebrew and put to music by Naomi Shemer. The poem appears in the 1989 American film Dead Poets Society. John Keating (played by Robin Williams), an English teacher at the Welton Academy boarding school, introduces his students to the poem in their first class. Keating is later fired from the school. As Keating returns to collect his belongings, the students stand on their desks and address Keating as "O Captain! My Captain!". The use of "My Captain" in the film was considered "ironic" by Cohen because the students are taking a stand against "repressive conformity" but using a poem intentionally written to be conventional. After Robin Williams' suicide in 2014, the hashtag "#ocaptainmycaptain" began trending on Twitter and fans paid tribute to Williams by recreating the "O Captain! My Captain!" scene. Luke Buckmaster, a film critic, wrote in The Guardian that "some people, maybe even most people, now associate Whitman's verse first and foremost with a movie rather than a poe ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6186 **********************************************