Sit.
I'll be teaching this class
through exams.
We'll find a permanent English teacher
during the break.
Who will tell me where you are
in the Pritchard textbook?
Mr Anderson.
- Uh, in the, in the Pr...
- I can't hear you, Mr Anderson.
In the, in the, in the Pritchard?
Kindly inform me, Mr Cameron.
We skipped around a lot, sir.
We covered the Romantics and some of the
chapters on Post Civil War literature.
What about the Realists?
I believe we skipped most of that, sir.
All right then, we'll start over.
What is poetry?
Come.
Excuse me.
I came for my personals.
Should I come back after class?
Get them now, Mr Keating.
Gentlemen, turn to page 2 1
of the introduction.
Mr Cameron...
read aloud the excellent essay
by Dr Pritchard...
on "Understanding Poetry."
That page has been ripped out, sir.
Well, borrow somebody else's book.
- They're all ripped out, sir.
- What do you mean,
they're all ripped out?
- Sir, we, uh...
- Never mind.
Read!
"Understanding Poetry
by Dr J. Evans Pritchard, PhD.
To fully understand poetry,
we must first be fluent with its metre,
rhyme and figures of speech.
Then ask two questions:
One, how artfully has the objective
of the poem been rendered?
And two...
how important is that objective?
Question one rates
the poem's perfection.
Question two rates its importance.
And once these questions
have been answered,
determining the poem's greatness...
becomes a relatively simple matter.
If the poem's score for perfection is
plotted on the horizontal of a graph..."
- Mr Keating!
They made everybody sign it.
- Quiet, Mr Anderson.
- You gotta believe me. It's true.
- I do believe you, Todd.
- Leave, Mr Keating.
- But it wasn't his fault!
Sit down, Mr Anderson! One more
outburst from you or anyone else...
and you're out of this school!
Leave, Mr Keating.
I said leave, Mr Keating.
O Captain, my Captain!
Sit down, Mr Anderson!
Do you hear me?
Sit down!
Sit down!
This is your final warning, Anderson.
How dare you?
Do you hear me?
O Captain, my Captain.
Mr Overstreet, I warn you!
Sit down!
Sit down!
Sit down. All of you.
I want you seated.
Sit down.
Leave, Mr Keating.
All of you, down.
I want you seated.
Do you hear me?
Sit down!
Thank you, boys.
Thank you.
