The Dead Poet's Society

1) What is the movie saying about poetry? Support your comments.

The movie, "The Dead Poet's Society," is portraying poetry as a tool. A tool for and idea or a belief, to create free thinkers and individuality in our lives to as Mr. Keating said, "Carpe Diem," or "Seize the Day." We saw many examples alike supporting this belief in Mr. Keating's inspired students. Like how Keating reached out and got to Neal, who directly diobeyed his father, seized the day and acted as Puck in a Midsummer Night's dream play. Although he did commit suicide that evening, it is beyond the point, since Neal's dad had led his son to the belief the only way of not being a honor bound family servant was suicide. Mr. Keating however also reached out to Todd who finally went from being the shy, under confident student, to an individual of society, all because Mr. Keating taught him to, "find his voice." Also, the story had a bit of romance, when Mr. Keating had led Knox to seize the day and make his life extraordinary by following the girl of his dreams to a point of even going to her class and reciting Poetry for her. Thereby The movie portrays poetry as a tool of an idea, to express your belief to others, as Mr. Keating expressed 'Carpe Diem' to the boys.




2) What do you think of Poetry? How is it similar or different than the movie's point of view?

My opinion of poetry was always that poetry is a tool of communication to express your feeling or ideas to others. The movie, I find portrays poetry almost exactly the same way as I described, in both questions number 1 and 2. I thought before that poetry can be seen through different lenses and the movie just strengthened my belief in this. This movie turned my vague idea on how poetry affects my life into a clear image on poetry defines my life. "Gather ye rose buds while ye may, as tomorrow there may be no flower."