DPS NOTE
DPS Notes
1. Polarities early in the film= tradition and originality obedience and freedom conformity and individuality realism and imagination
2. Schools aim= provide students with the light of knowledge
Light (schools 4 principles)= Tradition, honor, discipline, excellence
Boys principles= travesty, horror, decadence, excrement
3. Mr. Keating= used to remind us of romantic poet John Keats died at 2 - regarded poetic fame as the greatest of human goal
4. Keating takes first class into hall
Where we are introduced to his sacred view of poetry
Poem Pitt reads= seduction poem written within the carpe diem tradition
Is Keating seducing his students to his own philosophy of life? is this good or bad ?
5. Film’s title taken from Walt Whitman’s poem “starting from paumanok
Section 5 of this poem= describes final independent stance of a free-thinking, learned, mature person
6. Basic foundational image of film is war= opposing hostile forces
Two forces= McAllisters realism and Keatings romanticism
McAllistar (latin prof) sees dreams as enslaving and realism as liberating
In contrast Keating sees realism as enslaving and dreams as liberating
Realism VS romanticism sets up slavery vs oppression
This imagery links to the American civil war and the French revolution
Keating never show American poets who are fusion of realism and imagination
Keating wants to maintain war, rather than reconciliation format at the heart of his teaching.
John Milton never mention= good ex. Of tradition imagination combo
If keating taught boys Milton they could see value of traditional studies + their imaginative capabilities
7. 100 year anniversary= school founded just prior to American civil war.
Arrival of keating= another civil war is about to break out
8. Within this context= keating invites boys to view him as Abraham Lincoln figure
Keatings phrase “o captain, my captain” taken from elegy of Whitman to Lincoln
It’s a funeral poem, a tribute to a dead
1. Polarities early in the film= tradition and originality obedience and freedom conformity and individuality realism and imagination
2. Schools aim= provide students with the light of knowledge
Light (schools 4 principles)= Tradition, honor, discipline, excellence
Boys principles= travesty, horror, decadence, excrement
3. Mr. Keating= used to remind us of romantic poet John Keats died at 2 - regarded poetic fame as the greatest of human goal
4. Keating takes first class into hall
Where we are introduced to his sacred view of poetry
Poem Pitt reads= seduction poem written within the carpe diem tradition
Is Keating seducing his students to his own philosophy of life? is this good or bad ?
5. Film’s title taken from Walt Whitman’s poem “starting from paumanok
Section 5 of this poem= describes final independent stance of a free-thinking, learned, mature person
6. Basic foundational image of film is war= opposing hostile forces
Two forces= McAllisters realism and Keatings romanticism
McAllistar (latin prof) sees dreams as enslaving and realism as liberating
In contrast Keating sees realism as enslaving and dreams as liberating
Realism VS romanticism sets up slavery vs oppression
This imagery links to the American civil war and the French revolution
Keating never show American poets who are fusion of realism and imagination
Keating wants to maintain war, rather than reconciliation format at the heart of his teaching.
John Milton never mention= good ex. Of tradition imagination combo
If keating taught boys Milton they could see value of traditional studies + their imaginative capabilities
7. 100 year anniversary= school founded just prior to American civil war.
Arrival of keating= another civil war is about to break out
8. Within this context= keating invites boys to view him as Abraham Lincoln figure
Keatings phrase “o captain, my captain” taken from elegy of Whitman to Lincoln
It’s a funeral poem, a tribute to a dead