| Welcome to Mr. Foster's tribute to the Dead Poets Society |
| "He was their inspiration. He made thier lives extraordinary" is the tag line for Peter Weir's 1989 film, The Dead Poets Society. The year is 1959 and the setting is the prestigous Welton Academy, a private New England prep school. Among the new faculty is Mr. Keating, a Welton alumni who immediately encourages his naive students to "Seize the day" and "make their lives extraordinary". Along the way, his students would grow and develop while learning about life, death, poetry, and the wooing of women. In the end, the boys learned the most valuable lesson of all: Learning to think for oneself can bring enormous responsibility and create hostile fear in others. In class, I use this film as a source of inspiration for discussion in World History. I encourage my students to compare/contrast Mr. Keating with Socrates. Please use this page for your entertainment and enjoyment. |
| Click on the links below for related information on Dead Poets Society, Socrates, and the dead poets themselves. |
| Other Links: Carpe Diem, A Dead Poets Society Page Dead Poets Society Welcome to the Dead Poets Society |
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| "Oh Captain, My Captain." |
| "It's God. He says there should be girls at Welton." |
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| Walt Whitman (Also known as Uncle Walt or The Sweaty Toothed Madman) |
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| From a "barbaric yalp" to "The Sweaty Toothed Madman" |
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| "Call me...Nwanda." |
| "I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me. A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain. His hands reach out and choke me, and all the time he's mumbling. Mumbling truth, truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, it will never be enough, you kick at it, beat it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream." |
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| "Why do I stand here?" |
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| "Rip it out. I want to hear ripping." |
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