- Turn in your Poetry Essay Packets.
- Don't forget we have an "If" Stanza 3 Quiz tomorrow.
- Know that this journal will be finished on Tuesday of next week. (We have Monday off.)
- Journal Check on Wednesday, Feb. 20.
Journal 16: Dead Poets Society
1. Would Neil still have committed suicide if Mr. Keating had never come into his life? Consider multiple perspectives here as you draft your group response.
2. Who was really the bravest of Keating’s boys? Who was a coward? Be explicit and support your answers.
3. How did the poetry book make it into Neil’s room? (Did Keating put it there?) And if so, why, after telling the boys that the present administration would not look favourably on it, would Keating do that?
4. “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering; these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love; these are what we stay alive for.” Professor John Keating says this—what do you think it means? Do you agree? What are your views on poetry and why we read it?
5. Keating asks his students to consider what their ‘verse,’ or lasting impression, will be when they leave either Welton or this world. What ‘verse’ will you contribute in your lifetime? What do you hope will be the lasting impression you leave behind?
6 & 7. Read "O Captain, My Captain" and "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" (below). Write a thorough paragraph for each poem, discussing what the poem means, and then drawing connections between the poem and the movie.
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