One of the elements is the plot. This storyline keeps your interest in that it isn’t the same old thing you see in movie after movie. It actually portrays teenagers’ lives in something more than the stereotypical ‘party’ films that you can find in every cinema you visit. Yet ironically, the movies’ dependence on the all time great poets of the past is what makes it new. Mr. Keating (Robin Williams) is the new English instructor at a top of the notch New England prep school which by the way is extremely set on being traditional. Keating, however, is

Along with the plot comes the true significance of this movie, and that is its sound. A major portion of this film is based on poetry and with this poetry comes its distinct musicality. In class while reading aloud, the poems take a form, and for that instant it’s in the sound. Later while the society is reciting poems in their asylum (a cave on the grounds) they are freed. They are free of limitations set by parents, professors, and of the boundaries they have set for themselves to fall in line with Welton’s (school) norms. In this freedom, they allow themselves to play bongos, kazoos, and other assorted items to go to the beat of the poems or the beat they hear in their own minds’. These limitations are brought to surface in a demonstration Keating has with his class where he has everyone walk in a circle and eventually they all fall in step. Not only do they fall in step but those watching begin to clap in rhythm. The sound interlocks the rhythm with our senses in being able to feel the sound through touch or sight of touch. But aside from the poetry is the flow of the dialogue. The dialogue and conversations seem to have a remarkable flow to them which keeps the film moving smoothly along. I’m amazed at the pacing the movie has because it just does not have a moment that you think “get on with it already,” as most movies do.

not, and bursts in with this sort of light which makes it hard for the students as well as the audience to take their eyes off of him. His ideals maintain the plot because they are ideas that one wishes to accomplish on an everyday basis such as “Carpe Diem.” (Seize the Day!) He invokes thought, and challenges the institutionalized norms of our day for the sake of perspective and growth. His character brings life’s layers t

Some topics in this essay:
Thoreau Frost, Thoreau Whitman, Carpe Diem, Snowy Evening”, , Poet’s Society, Williams English, Society Keating’s, Seize Day, Ethan Hawke, poet’s society, dead poet’s, fall step, somehow fits, carpe diem, snowy embankment, dead poet’s society,