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@books-poetry-tea omg thank you for asking! So the introduction is Understanding Poetry, Pritchard is saying how good poetry is something measured by graphing it’s qualities. Poetry is yk a form of art which expresses any emotion you can think of. Poetry is a deeper way of people allowing themselves to be vulnerable and all that. On the surface I am the pages. I represent a type of scale weighing the good and the bad but sometimes my ideas of bad and good are blind sided by everything around me. So the scale Pritchard made shows human excellence not human expression. Which like omg this scene is so important to me because it really encompasses the meaning of the film. The boys ripping out the pages is them finally allowing themselves expression over excellence. I am the pages because I have become blinded by the expectations set in the environment I’ve grown in. So when the boys rip these pages away they are essentially allowing the pillars(tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence) or the expectations that have been set for them to brake away which in turn relates to me by ripping away toxic traits I’ve learned and need to unlearn.
Thank you for letting me ramble (•3•) idek if what I said makes sense but it makes sense to me so…
You know everyone in the Dps fandom is like I relate to Todd or I relate to Neil or literally any of them but tbh I relate to the introduction pages.
Yk thé pages they rip out because it puts a box on creativity so they throw it away.
Yeah I’m those pages.
No I will not explain (unless you ask please ask I want to explain)
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“The same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”
“O Captain! My Captain!” -A poem by Walt Whitman, A mantra from John Keating
“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.”
— John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poets Society (1989)
Some more stills from the DPS picture book, click to see the photos better (I wish I could have scanned them 😭)
Here's the first part
Got this dead poets society picture book, it's full of stills from the movie with some quotes and even some poems from Walt Whitman at the end 🥲🥲 there's even Todd's poem 😭😭😭 I love it so much, here's some pictures of it, it's in french tho
Click to see the photos better (I wish I could have scanned)
Here's some more