Dead+Poets+Society+Part+2


 * Dead Poets Society**

=Dead Poets Society - Idioms 2=

=**//Carpe diem//**= ** What time of day is shown in this picture? **



The geese are squawking and going into flight in a seemingly wild way. Immediately after this scene you see the boys on the staircase squawking in a similar way. This is **juxtaposition,** two things side by side to compare.

What does it mean for the boys to be compared with the geese?

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=Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman=



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 * Vocabulary **
 * Alumni – persons who graduated from a school or college
 * carpe diem - "seize the day" - make your like extrodorinary
 * daffodils- a kind of flower that is yellow and blooms in the spring
 * daring – willing to do something dangerous
 * dispel – get rid of; to eliminate
 * fertilizer – material put on plants to help them grow; plant food
 * fester – become infected and have pus
 * hormones – chemicals the body makes, often meaning sexual ones
 * iota – very little amount
 * legacy – what one leaves, when dead, for the next generations
 * overture -a piece of music written as an introduction to a longer musical piece, especially an opera or symphony
 * oyster – a shell fish that produces pearls
 * peruse - to read something in a careful way
 * phalanx
 * pubescence – the time when your body develops from being a child to being an adult: teenage years
 * reluctant - unwilling and slow to do something
 * sentiment- an opinion or feeling that you have about something such as pity, love, or sadness that is considered to be too strong
 * unfortunate - happening because of bad luck
 * weakling - someone who is not physically strong
 * idioms **
 * I’ll second that – agree with
 * come on - stop it or really?; let’s go
 * suit yourself – satisfy yourself, do what you want to
 * the spitting image – looks exactly the same as
 * holy cow – expression like “Oh my goodness”
 * food for worms – in the grave
 * 98 pound weakling – a person who is physically not strong
 * Fertilizing daffodils – rotting in a grave
 * Hustle up - hurry
 * World is his oyster – can do anything he wants, very lucky position
 * Phalanx of pubescence – wild time of teenagers