#this is /lh btw! keating is my favorite character but man. he pretty much threw them in head first huh

[everysongineverykey]

on the subject of dead poets society. imagine you are a teenage boy living in the 50s who goes to a very traditional formal conservative boys school and who has never been taught to express himself at all, let alone through art, and is pretty much ignorant of the nuances of poetry, and then on the first day of junior year your new english teacher takes you all out to stare at a trophy case for ten minutes, mutters some shit about "seizing the day", and then is like ok go write a poem it's due next class and you have to recite it in front of everyone :) have fun! for your first fucking homework assignment of the year. and he doesn't even show you any examples of good poetry or the various forms poetry comes in. and you're all sitting there in your stupid gay little study group like what's a pentameter

#dead poets society #this is /lh btw! keating is my favorite character but man. he pretty much threw them in head first huh