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Mr. Keating explains how to appreciate poetry.

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | Ulysses | To illustrate the point of conformity. | It was a lame stunt. | Acting is not a whim for you. | Schools go down for this. | UNDERSTANDING POETRY | MIN 27-36 (students ask Keating about the Dead Poet Society) | Questions for Class Discussion |


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  1. MIN 27-36 (students ask Keating about the Dead Poet Society)

 

 

Excrement!

The technical (or medical) term for "shit."

 

Poetry is not American Bandstand!

A famous TV show in which pop musicians sang their songs.

 

"J. Evan Pitchart, Ph.D."

The writer of the introduction in the poetry book which

Mr. Keating thinks destroys the true spirit of poetry.

 

Rip it out!

"To rip out" a page from a book is to remove it by tearing it out.

 

 

The casualty could be your heart and soul.

A "casualty" is an injury or death. Your "soul" is the part of you

that is spiritual, or not physical, and that in theory, lives forever.

 

You will learn to savor words.

"To savor" is to smell or taste with much pleasure or intensity.

 

Huddle up.

This means to come together in a tightly packed, small group.

 

The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

A section in a poem. Here, perhaps used

symbolically to mean "the poem of life."

 

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Misguided though it was.

To be "misguided" is to be lead in the wrong direction.

Note the somewhat rare grammatical construction.

 

Free-thinkers at 17?

A "free-thinker" is simply a term for someone who

thinks for themselves and refuses to be a conformist.

 


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