Dead Poet Society: Book Review: Dead Poets Society

Faye Valdez

PSY22

Homework: Dead Poets Society

Based on the line that Mr. Keating said, I think the reason why poetry, beauty, romance, and love are the things that we stay alive for is because these things affect how we think and live our lives. Yes, we cannot deny that medicine, law, business, engineering are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life but it is with poetry that we stay alive for because it makes us realize that humanity is a shared experience. We all feel pain, happiness, sadness, fear and anger. And I think this is what makes poetry universal. Poetry has the ability to touch and express our deepest emotions by either writing or reading it and this makes poetry intensely personal. With the use of language, we are capable

I think that as long as we have poetry, beauty, romance and love that identifies with the truth and what makes us truly human, we have a reason to stay alive for.

Poetry changed the lives of the characters in the film in a lot of ways. Through the help of Mr. Keating, the main characters realized how powerful poetry is and how this could change their life. The teachings of Mr. Keating transformed their way of thinking. The Welton Academy strictly upholds its tradition and discipline which requires every student to obey this. However, Mr. Keating believes otherwise. He believes the idea that education was to learn to think for yourself. Mr. Keating taught them that poetry is not as simple as laying a pipe or the greatness of it can be measured by the vertical and horizontal lines of a graph, he wanted them to understand poetry in a deeper and broader sense and not be confined by the definition of someone who wrote the introduction of a book. Ever since the day Mr. Keating asked Mr. Pitts to read the first stanza of the poem, “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time”, where he explained the main idea of the first line, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” which simply means “Carpe Diem” or “Seize the day”, the