1:56:04
What about the Realists?
1:56:06
I believe we skipped most of that, sir.
1:56:10
All right then, we'll start over.
1:56:15
What is poetry?
1:56:21
Come.
1:56:25
Excuse me.
1:56:29
I came for my personals.
Should I come back after class?
1:56:34
Get them now, Mr Keating.
1:56:39
Gentlemen, turn to page 2 1
of the introduction.
1:56:43
Mr Cameron...
1:56:45
read aloud the excellent essay
by Dr Pritchard...
1:56:50
on "Understanding Poetry."
1:56:54
That page has been ripped out, sir.
1:56:56
Well, borrow somebody else's book.
1:56:59
- They're all ripped out, sir.
- What do you mean,
they're all ripped out?
1:57:04
- Sir, we, uh...
- Never mind.
1:57:11
Read!
1:57:15
"Understanding Poetry
by Dr J. Evans Pritchard, PhD.
1:57:19
To fully understand poetry,
we must first be fluent with its metre,
rhyme and figures of speech.
1:57:24
Then ask two questions:
One, how artfully has the objective
of the poem been rendered?
1:57:29
And two...
1:57:32
how important is that objective?
1:57:35
Question one rates
the poem's perfection.
Question two rates its importance.
1:57:39
And once these questions
have been answered,
determining the poem's greatness...
1:57:43
becomes a relatively simple matter.
1:57:44
If the poem's score for perfection is
plotted on the horizontal of a graph..."
1:57:47
- Mr Keating!
They made everybody sign it.
- Quiet, Mr Anderson.
1:57:49
- You gotta believe me. It's true.
- I do believe you, Todd.
1:57:52
- Leave, Mr Keating.
- But it wasn't his fault!
1:57:54
Sit down, Mr Anderson! One more
outburst from you or anyone else...
1:57:57
and you're out of this school!
1:57:59
Leave, Mr Keating.