During the movie, quotations from Tennyson, Herrick, Whitman, etc. were made. It also discussed how poetry was not something explainable or something that could be taught how to enjoy, it made this point clear when the class is instructed to rip out the introduction of the textbook.

Robin Williams plays an independent, passionate English teacher by the name of John Keating. Keating rejects tradition and

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Leonard Neil, Welton Academy, Keating Keating, Robin Williams, Poets Society±, Herrick Whitman, Academy Vermont, It's God, welton academy, Neil Perry, robin williams, accept method, , students themselves,
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