O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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;
Here Captain! dear father!
The arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
6 thoughts on “RIP: Robin Williams”
Jaycee
I normally don’t comment on real-world events or the world of entertainment. This is a rare exception. Few people have inspired me or made me laugh as much as Robin Williams. His comedy act was great, but second to some of his more serious roles (Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Awakenings).
His passing leaves us all poorer. Even Attitude has been quiet for the last hour.
Peace.
–Jaycee
“I’m doing it.”
Nathan Weber
Very apropos post my friend. Well done.
Semtech
I’m gonna miss him that’s for sure and the poem along with it is heart wrenching. I think my favorite from him was What Dreams May Come.
Jaycee
I was a big fan of Good Will Hunting myself. Last night, to commemorate his greatness, I rented it and watched it again. *sigh*
–Jaycee
“I’m doing it.”
James Thomson
I just watched the Popeye musical again and I was amazed ll over again at the great job Robin Williams did of capturing the voice, the mannerisms, and the heroic nature of my childhood. And he made the character richer by adding the all true sense of sadness and longing of a son whose father has left him, a pain I now know all too well. It’s ironic that he committed suicide so soon after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s because I saw that the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Intel corporation are coming up with wearable technology to help Parkinson’s patients. Sorry this reply is so long, but there wasn’t a shorter way to express how I feel about the death of another of my childhood heroes.
Jaycee
Thanks for sharing. I’ve never seen Popeye (at the time, I was less interested in Robin Williams’s comedy movies), but I may do it now as a tribute.
I’m not sue his suicide had much to do with Parkinsons as much as with his depression (which may have been compounded by the disease, I admit). The more I think about it, the more I think he felt alone and trapped in his comedic persona. There was a deeper, gentle man that we rarely got to know except a little through his dramatic work. I suspect that was the real man behind, but he may never have felt it was a person worth sharing with the public.
A true shame…
–Jaycee
“I’m doing it.”
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