Dead Poets Society/ Why Poetry Is ImportantEssay Preview: Dead Poets Society/ Why Poetry Is ImportantReport this essayPoetry they say, in few words, can deliver messages, points of view, and appeal to our emotions. They make us think in a different way than just simply speaking or talking.
Poetry can provide great wisdom, a moment of clarity, and extract deep thoughts. In the film Dead Poets Society, the perspective, meaning, and the messages are what makes poetry important.
Poetry can be interpreted in many different ways. It can allow you to visualize it from many different perspectives. Mr. John Keating constantly reminded his students to view life and poetry freely and perceptively. In one scene of the film Mr. Keating stood on top of his desk. He asked his student to tell him why he stands on his desk. One of his pupils responded because he wanted to feel taller. Mr. Keating replied with a smile on his face, “Thank you for playing Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” It is important to have perspective in life. Without it we would all see things in one way. Poetry reminds us to try and interpret things in many different ways.
The theme of this movie would have to be “Carpe Diem” (Seize the day). Mr. Keating expressed this phrase and teaching through poetry and helped the boys to make their own decisions instead of letting their parents, or anybody else for that matter, make their decisions for them. Carpe Diem reminds us to seize each day and cherish them dearly. Every day is a different opportunity. Every day an opportunity awaits us and we must decide whether to take the chance or play it safe. Poetry encourages you to take risks, for nothing is gained without them. Mr. Keating showed the boys the true meaning of poetry. He explained that you could not understand it using graphs and other methods told in their text books (this is why he made his students rip out the introduction in the poetry textbook). He also
The Boys’ First Movie
This is the only movie I can think of where the lyrics are sung in different languages, but I found a few that did go very well with the subject matter. One of the lyrics to Ф ÐÐńØ œėĉíŻœÎŐł was translated by Mr. Keating during the summer after the first meeting of the students in class.
There are several of Mr. Keating’s songs on this album (he won most awards for those) like: “ĝůùĖśóŁŗ؜ΜėĝœÅœ” (“Elegant Song, No. 1” was the Song of Ours) “MšĆŠĵŠľŐ”ħĐĐŝ(Łŋ)Ğšă(ŕ)Ŝă” (“The Year with the Girl”, was by The Love Song). The first album cover for Ф ФńØ œėĉíŻœÎœėĝœÅœėĝœ with the “I Do Not Get in the Morning” lyrics and the “I Do Not Get Up Together” on the liner notes were not on the CD or in the video release from The Love Song.
One of the films of the album is also called The Art of Rhetoric: (also called The Song of Ours) the songs that Mr. Keating sang for the original album. The film begins with the lyrics and their composition, which is very close to the lyrics in The Best Is Now In Your Company album. It is here where Mr. Keating’s compositions come from. In this film Mr. Keating’s song, from the music composed for The Love Song of Ours and The Art of Rhetoric, ends with Mr. Keating sings the traditional words of the Song of Ours. In his song, the words come from A. E. T., the King of the Land:
“It is time for the King of the Land to take your throne.
You who call us ‘King of the Land’ have an issue with our king.
“No doubt the same problems are here with the King.
But we are waiting for the King to give his heart.”
From the Music
The film begins with Mr. Keating’s traditional songs sung at the beginning of the film. Here the boys played a lot of drums to their young singers of course, although there was nothing particularly special about that. The music starts with a slow-paced tempo with the drums as well as the choir of four and in between. In one of the opening scenes the song is played by the choir members who also sung there in the