Australian poets

LOGLINE: A couple takes an opportunity to admit their genius son into a very prestigious school despite there fears of being outcasted. In turn, there fears become reality and take a turn for the worst when a rival family does everything in their power to challenge the boards decision of their son’s admittance. With comedy at its core, this story mixes a happy go lucky style with thematic elects of revenge, conspiracy and challenge the ideals of the perfect family. SUMMARY: STEFANIE and HOWIE…

Synopsis The Dead Poets Society is a story that revolves around a group of boys who were attending a prestigious boys school together. Set in the 1950s, the parents and school culture were seen to be autocratic, where parents often dictated the lives of their children and leave them with no say. The story mainly unfolds from the perspectives of two students, Todd Anderson and Neil Perry, who are roommates. In the story, the students found inspiration from their English teacher, Mr. Keating, who…

A major relationship in A Lesson before Dying is the relationship between Jefferson and Grant. Though unsure in the beginning of their relationship, both Grant and Jefferson end up looking up to one another, and because of Grant, Jefferson is able to walk to his execution as a proud man. The relationship between Jefferson and Grant is that of a student and teacher. In the beginning of their relationship Jefferson was unwilling to hear from Grant; he would look at Grant with accusing eyes and…

After viewing the movies “Dead Poets Society” and “The Graduate” many similarities and differences can be found between the two such as, going with your gut whether or not it works out, journey to find themselves as people, loosening parents grips on their lives, and the flim techniques used. When it comes down to which movie executed better, it is clear that “Dead Poets Society” was better at conveying its ideas than the movie “The Graduate”. In both the “Dead Poets Society” and “The Graduate”…

GOOD WILL HUNTING The movie ‘Good Will Hunting’ directed by Gus Van Sant, is a movie about a guy called Will Hunting and his journey discovering who he really is. He could not do this on his own, without the help of his counselor Sean Maguire. Gus Van Sant skillfully uses a variety of film techniques to get across an idea. One of the most important scenes in ‘Good Will Hunting’ is the park scene. An important film technique used in the park scene is the camera angles. At the start of the park…

In the beginning of chapter 2, we kinda get an explanation about what karma is and how it works using clay as an example. The characters in this chapter were : Justin, Megan, McManus, Mr. Snell, Josh Winston, David Pink, Magnus, Audrey, and Jinsen. Justin starts the chapter off by basically saying he likes art because it’s the only he can be creative and get a good grade. He also likes his art teacher Mr. Snell, but they usually call him Mr. Smell. That day, Mr. Snell assigned the class a new…

A role-model is someone looked to by others who should set an example for others to follow. Mr. Keating, a new English teacher with unorthodox methods of teaching, demonstrates this in the movie when he influences his students to make the best of their time on this Earth. Mr. Keating used poetry in a way to make his students express his thoughts. For example, Mr. Keating completely changed the way Todd Andersen, a new and shy student with academic pressure from his brother’s reputation,…

The transition from childhood to adulthood can be difficult change in our lives. This theme can be seen throughout Dead Poet’s Society (D.P.S) and The Catcher in the Rye (Catcher). Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film directed by Peter Weir (Weir) and The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by author Jerome David Salinger (Salinger) who both reflected around the significant concept of change. Using the central idea of change these text can demonstrate the themes using conformity in society, death…

environment and past tragedies. In Dorothea Mackellar’s poem “My Country”, she shares her admiration for Australia’s beauty and danger, landscape/geographical features and her personal relationship with the land. On the contrary, Oodgeroo Noonuccal the poet of “We Are Going”, writes the poem in an Aboriginal perspective and shares about Australia’s historically tragic past, indigenous…

Closure in Lycidas What is the right response to death? How and to what extent should we mourn the ones we love? When John Milton's college friend, Edward King, drowned off of the Welsh coast 1, Milton wrote Lycidas in memoriam. A pastoral elegy, the poem represents King as the lost shepherd Lycidas and uses agricultural imagery to portray loss. The majority of the poem is spent highlighting the irrevocability and completeness of death, that is until lines 165-168: "Weep no more, woeful…