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Dead Poet's Society A FILM WORTH EXAMINING FOR TEACHING PURPOSES During the school year 1996/97 Sue Kerman and I (Jack Pillemer) used the film "The Dead Poet's Society" as a focus of motivation for our English lessons in the upper grades at Mae Boyar High School in Jerusalem. The idea was to use the film to generate interest and excitement in the Bagrut literature program since some of the pieces we teach for Bagrut are referred to in the movie. > experience of viewing the movie. We would happy to share our experience with you. Jack Pillemer jackpil@barak-online.net
 * General Introduction **
 * Below you will find : **
 * 1) A detailed report written by Sue Kerman.
 * 2) A page of quotes from the movie which was prepared as a handout for the students. (if you use the movie, this page will save you a lot of work.)
 * 3) A link to poetry written by certain students in response to the

Sue Kerman skerman@netvision.net.il ____________________________________________________________________ By Sue Kerman Since there is often a problem of motivation among certain pupils in teaching the English poetry program in high school I looked around for some way to stimulate the interest of the students in the subject and so came upon the film "The Dead Poet's Society" This film I found eminently attractive to young people that age as well as extremely useful for my purposes. The film not only includes excerpts from several of the poems on our program but also deals with themes that the pupils find very relevant. Before showing the film I went through it and picked out the various pieces of poetry that came up in the film and printed them up for the pupils, as well as quotations from the main character in the film, Professor Keating - ( [|See Attachment 1] <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">). <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I began with a short discussion in class based on the Professor's first quotation on the nature and relevance of poetry. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">"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." <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I then asked the pupils to take the pages of poetry home and read them through and choose at least one item that particularly moved them. At the next lesson the pupils presented the poetry they liked the best, explained why they liked it and we discussed the excerpts together. I provided a minimal explanation about some of the poets, especially Walt Whitman, who is a central focus in the film. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This allowed the pupils to become familiar with a few of the poems so that they could identify them when they heard them in the film. And it also prepared them for the more in-depth study of some of the poems later. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In some classes this discussion began to inspire a few pupils to bring in some modern pop songs that they considered particularly poetic and one pupil brought in a poem he had written himself. As I result of this reaction I announced in all the three classes in which I was doing this activity that anyone interested in bringing in poetry they liked or in writing a poem of their own was welcome to do so. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">For the next four lessons I showed the film without any comment or interference except for writing in large capital letters "CARPE DIEM" on the board. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">After the pupils had finished seeing the film I threw open the discussion on the film. I found this discussion most fruitful if done immediately after viewing. I discovered that the main focuses of discussion developed around the following subjects: <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1) The two approaches to education presented in the film - the strict, disciplined structure of the boysò school as opposed to the freer carpe diem attitude of their teacher. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pupils did not necessarily opt for the latter approach and expressed their reservations. This led to a general discussion on education and on what they find most effective for themselves. This subject could be developed further with other supplementary material. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">2) A second theme was the relationship between a teacher and a pupil and how close and informal such a relationship should be. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The pupils related to both the positive, inspirational aspect of the relationship between the teacher and his pupils, as well as to the potentially dangerous nature of the relationship. A few pupils brought up the example of the film "The Wave" in which the teacher was able to convince his pupils to become Nazis. This in some classes developed into a discussion of to what extent the teacher in the film was responsible for the suicide of his pupil. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">As a balance to that I might consider using next time a short story in which the pupil commits suicide as a result of lack of involvement by a teacher. (See Attachment 2)
 * <span style="color: #804040; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">USING THE FILM "THE DEAD POET'S SOCIETY" AS THE BASIS FOR TEACHING ****<span style="color: #804040; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">THE POETRY COURSE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN GRADES 11 AND 12 **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I. INTRODUCTION **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">II. METHOD OF TEACHING **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Before Viewing the Film **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Dead Poet's Society **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">After Viewing the Film **
 * <span style="color: #804040; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A. Discussion **

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3) A third area of discussion was the relationship between parents and children. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The relationship between the pupil who commits suicide and his father aroused very strong feelings among the pupils and this brought up a discussion of the degree of involvement parents should have in the lives of their children, what kind of involvement is positive and helpful and which negative and destructive. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In general my feelings were that a whole semester could be spent just developing these areas of discussion with various supplementary materials around the themes. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I discovered also while preparing my material that there were several Internet sights relating to this film to which I referred those of my pupils who are interested in computers <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">After the above preparation I found that my pupils were much more receptive and involved in the study of the poetry. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I began by teaching the Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken". This poem deals with the theme of choice and lost opportunities which is also the main theme of the film. I then continued on to the second Frost poem in the program, "Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening" which can also be tied in with the film. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In relation to the Whitman poem "O Captain! My Captain!" I brought in the Hebrew version written as a song by Naomi Shemer, compared the two and discussed the association with Yitzhak Rabin's death. I did not do much more than that since the poem itself is not Whitman's best. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The rest of the poems in the study program were not specifically mentioned in the film but can easily be connected up to it. For example: <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1) My Papa's Waltz - by Theodore Roethke - deals with the emotional, sometimes violent, elements in a relationship between a parent and a child. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">2) "Walking Away" - by C. Day Lewis - deals with a son leaving home and the separation from his parent. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3) "Richard Cory" - by Edwin Arlington Robinson - deals with the theme of suicide and false impressions. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">4) "Musee des Beaux Arts" - by W.H. Auden - the relevancy here could be around the figure of Icarus, i.e., trying to go beyond one's reach - did Keating ask his pupils to reach too far?
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">B. Internet **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teaching the Poetry **

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">As I mentioned above the discussion about poetry and the film inspired some pupils to write some poetry of their own or bring in songs they liked. I have printed up the material (without names) and plan to hand it out at the last lesson of the year for the perusal of the rest of the classes. (] [|See Attachment 3] ) <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Some pupils brought in videos of other films which they thought the class might enjoy watching (e.g., "The Wall") <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This kind of program opens up opportunities for various kinds of project work. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Here is a list of possible assignments that could go with this program: <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1. Decide on the poet you liked the best from the poets you have heard about and read up on his/her biography and style. Choose three of his poems and discuss them. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">2. Choose a different work, i.e., not a poem, by one of the writers discussed in class and write up / present a report on it. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3. Find locations on the Internet that relate to any of the poems or poets we have talked about and present your results to the class. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">4. Write a poem of your own. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">5. Write a letter to one of the following:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Further Activities **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Assignments **

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> a. the headmaster of the school

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> b. Professor Keating

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> c. the parents of the pupils <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">6. Watch another film that relates to any of the subjects mentioned and report on it to the class, e.g., "If", "The Wave". <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">7. Compare the education you have gotten with the two approaches presented in the film.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I have used films occasionally in the past to teach certain works of literature but I found this film was one of the most effective. It is a film that speaks to all levels of pupils and presents a very strong message for them. I found pupils that were not normally active in lessons became more involved and interested and that the usually active ones were inspired to reach beyond their ordinary level as well.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">CONCLUSION **

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">POETRY FROM THE FILM <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">"THE DEAD POET'S SOCIETY" <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">"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." <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Dead Poet's Society <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O Captain! My Captain! <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">1 <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">ATTACHMENT 1: **

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But O heart! heart! heart!

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O the bleeding drops of red,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Where on the deck my Captain lies,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fallen cold and dead. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">2 <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Here Captain! dear father!

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This arm beneath your head;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">It is some dream that on the deck,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">You've fallen cold and dead. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">3 <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">>From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But I, with mournful tread,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Walk the deck my Captain lies,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fallen cold and dead. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Walt Whitman <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Old Time is still a-flying;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And this same flower that smiles today,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">To-morrow will be dying. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The higher he's a-getting;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The sooner will his race be run,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And nearer heòs to setting. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">That age is best, which is the first,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When youth and blood are warmer;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But being spent, the worse, and worst

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Times still succeed the former. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Then be not coy, but use your time,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And while ye may, go marry;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">For having lost but once your prime,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">You may for ever tarry. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Robert Herrick <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O Me! O Life! <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O ME O life!...of the questions of these recurring:

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Of the endless trains of the faithless-- of cities fill'd with the foolish;....

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">What good amid these, O me, O life? <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Answer. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">That you are here-- that life exists, and identity;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And I'll show you a happy man <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Tennyson <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">* <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But only in their dreams can men be truly free

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">It was always thus and always thus will be. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Keating <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discover that I had not lived. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Thoreau <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Prophet <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teach me to Love? go teach thyself more wit;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I chief Professor am of it.... <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The God of Love, if such a thing there be,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">May learn to love from Me.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">He who does boast that he has been

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In every Heart since Adamòs sin,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I'll lay my Life, nay Mistress on't that's more;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I teach him thing he never knew before; <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Cowley <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ulysses <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">...Come, my friends,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">`Tis not too late to seek a newer world...

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">for my purpose holds

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">To sail beyond the sunset,...

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and tho'

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">We are not now that strength which in old days

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">One equal temper of heroic hearts,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">-Tennyson <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Most men live lives of quiet desperation. - Thoreau <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dare to strike out and find new ground. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I sound my barbaric YAWP over the rooftops of the word.. - Whitman <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Road Not Taken <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">...Two roads diverged in a wood

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And I took the one less traveled by

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And that made all the difference. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Frost <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Shall I compare thee to a summeròs day

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Thou art more lovely and more temperate <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">-Shakespeare <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">She walks in beauty, like the night

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">All that's best of dark and bright

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Melt in her aspect and her eyes: <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- Byron <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">********** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A Midsummer Nightòs Dream <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">If we shadows have offended,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Think but this -- and all is mended--

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">That you have but slumber'd here

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">While these visions did appear.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And this weak and idle theme,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">No more yielding but a dream,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Gentles, do not reprehend;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">If you pardon, we will mend.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And, as I am an honest Puck,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">If we have unearned luck

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Now to escape the serpent's tongue,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">We will make amends ere long;

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Else the Puck a liar call:

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">So, good night unto you all,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Give me your hand, if we be friends,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And Robin shall restore amends.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">POEMS HANDED IN BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RESPONSE TO THE MOVIE "THE DEAD POET'S SOCIETY" <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sometimes fate turns its back to you.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">ATTACHMENT 3: **
 * <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">Dreams **

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And sometimes shows its teeth.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But I have never seen its smile.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Oh, Lady Luck's a myth!

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hold on to dreams -- they're all you've got,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Man's hand can touch them never.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Your life ends with a single shot,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But dreams remain forever.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">>From birth to death, day after day,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The sun goes up all over.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Without the dreams our world is gray

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Your fears can take you nowhere.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dreams can break chains that never broke,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Rhyme words unmeant to rhyme.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">With dreams a child can change the world

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And backwards move time.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hold on to dreams -- sleep or awake.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And make your dreams come true.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">For your dreams are all yours alone...

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">They make "just someone" you... <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Inspired by: <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">"But only in their dreams can men be truly free

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">It was always thus, and always thus will be." <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Keating <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">*** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The nightmare is over,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The day has begun.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The light is such glory

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And no cloud in the sky.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">All lovely and peaceful

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">There sunshine and songs.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Already alarm clock...

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O please, a second more! <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">* <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Life: a period of material,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Placed somewhere in time and space.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Something that over

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and ties the ends.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But there are open lives <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">* <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Do I love him?

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I don't know.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Maybe yes and maybe no. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Does he love me?

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I hope so

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">O, my God, please tell me so. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">*** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">NIL <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Running fast along the bridge

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Shining stars jumping in the eyes,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Suddenly, helpless, want to scream, to shout

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But my mouth is closed, my voice doesnòt sound.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stone after stone, piece after piece,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Falling from the bridge to the river -- so deep. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Walking slowly on the long, dark bridge

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The shining in the eyes went long ago to sleep,

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The water is calling, whispering under my feet.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Tired, aimless, I'm closing my eyes.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Trying to push different buttons in all kinds of size:

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pushing REWIND and FAST FORWARD, but the button is stuck

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And then on PLAY, but the terrible music drives me nuts.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I throw the damn tape in the river, full of violence

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And then STOP

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and hear the silence. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">*** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Love is like energy

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Turning inside, from dawn of life

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Although the stormy desert of

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">It. Till the dusk.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Love in the night should explode.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Couples can make it so fine.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I'll be yours and you'll be mine.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I shall never bear you a grudge.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I would rather reflect on it with a forgiving touch.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Like the sea, our waves will rise high.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">You'll be my girl, I'll be your guy.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I run out of ideas. I run out of words.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Never go from me, always go towards. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">***

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">New life is born!

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the white wilderness of emptiness

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">New life, new wine, dying on a vine

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The true heart of a black soul

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Full with fears and vengeance

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">>From an indifferent world.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Gods and myths, ancient world, ancient wars.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wake up, the time has come again

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Time to bring up the ancient fire

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">>From hearts of lost warriors

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dying near the ancient lake of hope.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hell within, hell without, hell is what the screams about

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">All of us were born to suffer

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Time and space no longer matter

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Guns, thunders, the sound of battle

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fighting the peace by the power of new gods

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">For new habitats, for life. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">*** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">She was bleeding herself out of your sight

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And your fears prevented you from interfering

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">"Sad people cannot see anything but the dark," you said, and didn't

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">understand that the darkness is a mirror.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">"Most people are frightened from seeing themselves," she said, dying

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">in your hands

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">You watched her soul dripping slowly from her body and heard her last

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">words.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">What you didn't hear was her soul, screaming at you, "If you want to

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">live, stop hiding from the darkness."

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stop hiding from yourself. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">*** <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Everything is gay and fresh

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Everything is gay and fresh

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I heard a little girl singing on the bus

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I told her to be quiet

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And she kicked me in the ass <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Now it hurts

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">And I feel bad

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I can't believe it

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I'm almost dead <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">It's all because of that little girl

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Who doesn't take criticism well.

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Next time I see her on the bus

<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I will kick her in the ass.

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