Relating To A Dead Poet's Society

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¨ I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in paintings. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.¨ ( Arnold Schoenberg) In society when we assume that poems are old and boring or at least that's how I think about it. Although I thought poems were boring and old too at one point of my life. I have come to realize that poems most of the times are related to real life situations.. I changed how I view poems because of the movie Dead Poets Society. The movie taught me how poems can relate to our society. For example, expressing through music, art, and theatre or just understanding life itself. In a society like ours poems take different forms, so we can express how we feel. …show more content…

Keating, he taught in a different ways that other teachers thought it wasn't as appropriate. Although he didn't teach like the other teacher in the movie his students slowly understood what poems truly mean. In the Dead Poet Society there was a scene where Neil wanted to pursue his long life dream which was becoming an actor. However both of Neil's parents wanted him to become a doctor instead of him being an actor. His parents didn't let him because they thought that being a doctor would be best for his future. Until the day came where he decided to stand up for himself, what he thought was right for him even if it meant he wouldn't live to achieve it. In the most of the students that were in the club eventually understood what poems are really about in real life

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