Find Yourself Here on Out
In the film “Dead Poets Society” directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. This film is set in 1959 but released in 1989, it takes place at Welton Academy, an all boys school preparing them for the Ivy League. A former student who attended Welton, is now an teaching an English class who is John Keating. The first class keating teaches he introduces himself by reciting a poem that goes like this “O’ captain, My captain... It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you're slightly more daring, ‘O Captain my Captain’." After that, he tells his class to follow him out to the hall and observe this photograph from generations ago, to realize that they are all dead. ALso bringing up the fact on how they are different from one another, they way they dress or the haircut or their ambitions. As if some of the deceased students were behind the crowd of boys Mr. Keating softly whispers “Carpe Diem” meaning seize the day in Latin. This is when transcendentalism and individuality comes in place. Throughout the film he teaches the boys lessons for a reason, such as ripping the introduction from the book because poetry should not be taught as if you were reading math. Along the way keating does a great job to be authentic even if there …show more content…
For instance teaches Todd Anderson to speak aloud and to not be afraid of the crowd, Neil Perry to go after what he want but to always face the real problem immediately, Charlie Dalton to suck the marrow from the bone,
In the film “Dead Poets Society” directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. This film is set in 1959 but released in 1989, it takes place at Welton Academy, an all boys school preparing them for the Ivy League. A former student who attended Welton, is now an teaching an English class who is John Keating. The first class keating teaches he introduces himself by reciting a poem that goes like this “O’ captain, My captain... It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you're slightly more daring, ‘O Captain my Captain’." After that, he tells his class to follow him out to the hall and observe this photograph from generations ago, to realize that they are all dead. ALso bringing up the fact on how they are different from one another, they way they dress or the haircut or their ambitions. As if some of the deceased students were behind the crowd of boys Mr. Keating softly whispers “Carpe Diem” meaning seize the day in Latin. This is when transcendentalism and individuality comes in place. Throughout the film he teaches the boys lessons for a reason, such as ripping the introduction from the book because poetry should not be taught as if you were reading math. Along the way keating does a great job to be authentic even if there …show more content…
For instance teaches Todd Anderson to speak aloud and to not be afraid of the crowd, Neil Perry to go after what he want but to always face the real problem immediately, Charlie Dalton to suck the marrow from the bone,