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DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY

Note: Tasks 1&2 are compulsory, counted into your grade. For tasks 3 and 4, you should finish at least
one of them.

1. Anticipation before watching the movie: use a dictionary to find the definition for each word
below and add an example sentence by yourself. (8 points)

2. While and after watching the movie: answer the following questions. (12 points)

1) What are the ‘four pillars’ of the school?


Tradition; honor; discipline; excellence.
2) What does ‘Carpe Diem’ mean?
Seize the day.
3) Do you find the final scene heroic, disappointing, romantic, realistic, or something else? Explain.

4) What are the attributes of Mr. Keating?

5) How is Mr. Keating’s teaching style unorthodox?

6) Which character has the most charisma? Why?

3. Below is one of the poems quoted in the film. What do you think is the theme of the poem? Do
you like it? Why? Can you identify at least one poetic or literary device in it? E.g. rhythm, rhyme,
metaphor, personification, etc.

“O Captain! My Captain!”
by Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,


The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;


Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

4. Describe a time when a teacher made an impression on you (around 2 minutes). Record your
answer and send to me.

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