,,so the other day I rewatched one of my favourite movies of all time, "Dead Poets Society" directed by Peter Weir in 1989. Robin Williams plays the character of John Keating, an English teacher employed at a Boy's academic high school. Rather than merely follow the English syllabus traditionally, Keating fights the concepts of a conformist, submissive society and encourages his students to rather follow their passions, individual desires, and to seize the day. Favourite movie moments include Keatings declarations of "Carpe Diem!"; telling his students to rip out the analytical introduction in their textbooks about how to measure the value of a poem, and teaching the students how to look at things in different perspectives by-humourously- encouraging them to stand on and jump off his desk. Heartfelt and emotional, the movie inspires an audience to view poetry, thinking out the box, and their own passions as anything but ordinary.
"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." -Keating
I really love this quote from the movie. It follows through with that quote about the best things in life being felt with the heart. Poetry is an expression of feeling. And who in the human race does not feel? We are all poet's, all painters of our own lives, all narrators of our own stories,,, make your life worth reading, and something you would want to read, free from the pressures and expectations of others.
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