Keating dismisses the clinical essay as "excrement" and has the students tear the pages out of their books. He then tells the boys why one should read poetry: not because it's "cute," but instead to be able to "savor words and language." To illustrate the importance of poetry in the students' process of self-discovery, Keating quotes Whitman: "Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring...
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Answer: That you are here -- that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." Keating instructs the students that they are to address him as "O Captain, My Captain." It makes sense that the film would use one of Whitman's more famous poems, but in the context of that poem (Lincoln's assassination) the choice seems unusual...
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Literary Essay ? Dead Poets So He asks why the boys are clapping, and they do not know. Perhaps they were clapping because everyone else was clapping, or perhaps they were just having a good time...	3 / 749
Literary Essay - Dead Poets So He asks why the boys are clapping, and they do not know. Perhaps they were clapping because everyone else was clapping, or perhaps they were just having a good time...	3 / 749
Dead Poets Society Another benefit is that you look at the world differently, which Keating taught by one simple action, standing on a desk. This showed the students, again, the importance of free thinking because when you stand on a desk things look much different than when you do not stand on anything, which puts their minds in a whole different perspective...	2 / 541
Dead Poets Society/ Why Poetry Is Important Poetry encourages you to take risks, for nothing is gained without them. Mr. Keating showed the boys the true meaning of poetry. He explained that you could not understand it using graphs and other methods told in their text books (this is why he made his students rip out the introduction in the poetry textbook)...	2 / 498