Robin Williams, as he stood atop his teacher desk with overwhelming passion in the film “Dead Poet’s Society,” said with conviction “Why do I do this? To remind myself to constantly look at things in a different way.” With shock and awe, the all-boys secondary school class was asked to stand upon their own desks, to view life with a creative lens, to open up their minds. In the film, Robin Williams played a teacher who quoted Walt Whitman, a Romantic poet, to demonstrate how poetry, an art, was the key to understanding life. He viewed poetry as not only the driving force of the boys’…