Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film which tells the story of a Whitman-quoting English teacher at a 1950s boys' school who inspires his students to overcome their reluctance to make changes in their lives and stirs up their interests in poetry.

Trivia

The passage in the poetry textbook Keating has his students read from at the beginning of the movie is taken nearly word-for-word from an early chapter of Laurence Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, which is still occasionally used by AP English classes in the United States.

Related Topics:
Laurence Perrine - AP English

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