Poetry In Motion: Dead Poet's Society

Poetry in Motion Poetry tends to be dull and unappealing for others. It is something that students are forced to learn in school. They read it, they write it, they hear it, but it ends up stopping right there. For teenagers in high school, poetry doesn't take anyone anywhere but a trip to a sheep farm, but in the Dead Poet's Society, these young high school teenagers obtain more than just a lesson in poetry. Neil Perry and Todd Anderson room together in an almost dictator like school run by Mr. Nolan trying to find themselves in their early lives. They and other students are taught by a former alumni Mr. John Keating and are taught more than just English literature.
For Nate and Todd, they both go about following the dictator like ways of the school, following structure, order, and discipline. They follow everything by the book and read everything by the book until they attended Mr. Keating's class for the first time. His method of teaching was very unorthodox and made all of his students uneasy breaking away from the regular routine. He decides to rip everything out of the "book" and show …show more content…
Mr. Keating wanted to teach their students more than just poetry but to look at it in a different point of view. He not only displayed that to throughout class but he also tied it through his student's personal lives. As the classes went on he performed lessons for the students to be active and engaged in class. He showed his point in seeing things in different perspective by having all of his students rip out pages out of their textbooks. Mr. Nolen walks by and sees's the students rip out pages thinking that there was no order and that there was rebellion in class, but in retrospect, Mr.keating was trying to open an empty canvas for the students in the structure of poetry. In the Dead Poets Society, the film successfully gave two different aspects, the aspects of poetry and the viewpoints of the