List of Poems Used in Dead Poets Society
Smells Like: Dead Poets Society
Scene from Dead Poets Society starring Robin Williams.
The title of the movie comes from T. S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent.
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.”
Here are the poems in order of appearance.
- To the Virgins, Make Much of Time – Robert Herrick
- Ode 1.11 – Horace
- O Captain My Captain – Walt Whitman
- O Me! O Life! – Walt Whitman
- Excerpt from Walden [not a poem] – Henry David Thoreau
- The Prophet – Abraham Cowley
- Excerpt from Ulysses – Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The Ballad of William Bloat – Raymond Calvert
- The Congo – Vachel Lindsay
- Song of Myself, Section 52 – Walt Whitman
- The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
- Sonnet XVIII – William Shakespeare
- She Walks In Beauty – Lord Byron
- Song of Myself XVI – Walt Whitman
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
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By Tom Fasano on December 7, 2008 – 9:23 pm
Posted in Movies, Poetry | 3 Comments »
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Michael Obel-Omia on Mar 19, 2010 | Reply
Thank you for putting this site together. It is very useful.
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Tom Fasano on Mar 19, 2010 | Reply
Thanks, it’s kind words like these that add energy to my teaching and blogging.
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aikum on Sep 7, 2010 | Reply
wow thanks alott!!!