Gather Your Rosebuds Professor Shengs Analysis

In this 1989 film, a passionate English professor, john keating, “changes his students’ lives forever when he challenges them to live life to the fullest”. He incorporates the Latin quote “carpe diem” seize the day and make your lives extraordinary. This story takes place at Welton Academy Prep School, in Vermont, America. With this quote he inspires the lives of seven students each in a different way
Prof. Keating give’s his first lesson of poetry in the school hallway. He instructs one of the students to read a poem from Abraham Lincoln, which said “Oh Captain, My Captain”, in which he instructs the students “call me Captain if you dare.”
He then asks other students to read this first stanza of another poem which read “Gather your rosebuds
As he asks these students “Why do I stand on top of my desk?”
As he explains why he tells his students to all take a turn and stand on top of his desk as well. As they line up, stand up on top, and look around the whole classroom, Professor Keating explains why.
He tells his students just when they think they know something, they must try to look at all things from a different point of view, no matter if it’s wrong or silly, and they must try.
“You boys must strive to find your own voice, the longer you wait the less likely you are to find it at all.”
The class assignment if creating your own poem is finally due. Mr. Keating picks on Anderson who is sitting in agony and misery because he is to embarrassed to read his poem. The professor wrote on the board the following sentence: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roof top of the world”. As he asks Anderson to stand up, he closes his eyes and tells him to describe a poet, whose picture on the classroom wall. After every line Anderson would say the professor insisted to speak more and more and keep describing what Anderson see’s in his mind. As the professor insisted more poetic lines would come out of Anderson as he
Keating motivates Neil to talk his father the way he is talking to him. By talking he will get to a better understanding with his father, and probably will get him to stay in the play. Neil would prefer an easier way out, but talking to his father is the only solution.
Though he is a great actor if he is not himself in front of his dad, than there he is acting too. Mr. Keating tells him he should talk to his father the same way he talks to him. Some kids aren’t able to speak up at home and they find comfort in teachers at school.
Also, not many teachers in high school give their students that extra push or inspiration, to make a move and “make our lives extraordinary.”
In the film, Mr. Keating followed the school curriculum, but aside from all the other teachers, his way of teaching entertained the classroom. It kept them on their feet wanting to learn more.
He did many things different activities aside from reading behind the desk, or writing on the board. Examples: He took them outside to the courtyard, to the soccer field for a poem exercise, the hallway lesson for the first day of class, and much